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LA City Council Meeting - May 26, 2026

Everything we captured from this meeting — agenda items and public comment, with links into the recording.

May 26th Three-minute briefing Recording Agenda
LA City Council meeting chamber on May 26, 2026
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Agenda items

  1. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to ordering the confirmation, levy, and collection of Proposition K annual assessments for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-27 Council File 25-1533
  2. ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION and TRADE, TRAVEL AND TOURISM COMMITTEE REPORT relative to the proposed Second Amendment to Contract DA-5629 with Vanderlande Industries, Inc. for the continued design and construction services of the Baggage Optimization Project Phase Two at Los Angeles… Council File 25-0049-S1
  3. CATEGORICAL EXEMPTION and TRADE, TRAVEL AND TOURISM COMMITTEE REPORT relative to Port of Los Angeles (POLA) Resolution No. 26-10712 approving Permit No. 967 with So. Cal. Ship Services, LLC Council File 26-0690
  4. ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION and TRADE, TRAVEL, AND TOURISM COMMITTEE REPORT relative to Port of Los Angeles (POLA) Resolution No. 26-10708 for the First Amendment to the Second Memorandum of Understanding between the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and the Harbor… Council File 22-1425-S1
  5. ORDINANCE SECOND CONSIDERATION relative to creating a new Community Investment Department through the consolidation of the Department of Aging, Community Investment for Families Department, Economic and Workforce Development Department, and Youth Development Department Council File 25-0600-S43
  6. ORDINANCE SECOND CONSIDERATION relative to amending the Los Angeles Administrative Code and Los Angeles Municipal Code to revise wage and benefit provisions for airport employees and hotel workers Council File 25-1466
  7. CONSIDERATION OF MOTION (RODRIGUEZ, PADILLA - LEE) relative to naming the intersection of Roscoe Boulevard and Langdon Avenue as "Bert & Jane Boeckmann." Council File 26-0425
  8. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION (YAROSLAVSKY - HARRIS-DAWSON) relative to establishing the City's position on Assembly Bill (AB) 1924 (Gabriel - Quirk-Silva), which would require the State Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to develop and publicly issue a… Council File 25-0002-S108
  9. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION (YAROSLAVSKY - JURADO) relative to establishing the City's position on Assembly Bill (AB) 1899 (Caloza) to establish an Office of Youth Homelessness Prevention in the California Interagency Council on Homelessness Council File 25-0002-S110
  10. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION (YAROSLAVSKY - JURADO) relative to establishing the City's position on State Assembly is a bill, (AB) 1070 (Ward), which would direct the State of California's Department of Housing and Community Development to create a working group to explore… Council File 25-0002-S101
  11. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION (YAROSLAVSKY - RODRIGUEZ, LEE) relative to establishing the City's position on Assembly Bill (AB) 1903 (Wicks), which would reform several aspects of construction defect liability law Council File 26-0002-S21
  12. CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION (NAZARIAN - YAROSLAVSKY) relative to establishing the City's position on Assembly Bill (AB) 1406 (Ward), which would raise the current liquidated damages cap for new condominium housing developments Council File 26-0002-S16
  13. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Tract No. 73854, located at 5841 West David Avenue, northwesterly of Washington Boulevard Council File 26-0722
  14. MOTION (McOSKER - HUTT) relative to funding for a fencing project along McCoy Avenue in Council District 15 Council File 26-0733
  15. MOTION (YAROSLAVSKY - SOTO-MARTINEZ) relative to rescinding funds for brush and debris removal and beautification services in Council District 5 Council File 26-0298
  16. MOTION (HUTT - PRICE) relative to coordinating by the Leimert Park Jazz Festival as a City of Los Angeles Event Street Banner Program for the period of June 30, 2026-September 1, 2026 Council File 26-0740
  17. MOTION (McOSKER - NAZARIAN) relative to reinstating the reward offer relative to the unsolved murder of Akeem Jamaal Coburn (Council Action of October 9, 2020, C.F. 20-0010-S14) Council File 20-0010-S14
  18. MOTION (PRICE - PARK) relative to negotiating a Contract between the City and the University of Southern California (USC) to provide supplemental City Services for Events in the City of Los Angeles at venues Council File 26-0741
  19. MOTION (HARRIS-DAWSON - LEE) relative to resolving to hold the Friday, May 29, 2026, regular meeting at Van Nuys City Hall Council File 26-1000
  20. MOTION (HERNANDEZ - JURADO) relative to funding for the Cypress Park Pedestrian Tunnel Project in Council District 1 Council File 26-0746
  21. MOTION (HERNANDEZ - JURADO) relative to funding for improvements with local Veterans and the Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council at the Highland Park Veterans Memorial Square at North Figueroa Street/York Boulevard in Council District 1 Council File 26-0747
  22. COMMUNICATION FROM THE BUREAU OF STREET LIGHTING (BSL) and ORDINANCE OF INTENTION FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to establishing a hearing date for the Annual Assessment for Street Lighting Maintenance and Operation for Fiscal Year 2026-27 Los Angeles City Lighting District Council File 26-0724
  23. COMMUNICATION FROM THE BUREAU OF STREET LIGHTING (BSL) and ORDINANCE OF INTENTION FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to establishing a hearing date for maintenance and operation of the annual assessment for the 1996-97 Z-Series Street Lighting Maintenance Assessment District for… Council File 26-0725
  24. COMMUNICATION FROM THE BUREAU OF STREET LIGHTING (BSL) and ORDINANCES OF INTENTION FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to establishing a hearing date for the maintenance and operation of the annual assessment of the 2026-27 Proposition 218 Confirmed Street Lighting Maintenance… Council File 26-0726
  25. COMMUNICATION FROM CITY ATTORNEY and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to repealing Los Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC) Section 5.568 which created the 901 Olympic North Hotel Trust Fund, and LAAC Section 5.574 which created the Metropolis Hotel Project Trust Fund Council File 25-0600-S129
  26. COMMUNICATION FROM CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (CAO) relative to a proposed contract with Loomis Armored U.S., LLC to provide Citywide armored courier services Council File 26-0723
  27. STATUTORY EXEMPTION, COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER and BUREAU OF ENGINEERING relative to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026-27 Annual Homelessness Funding Report Council File 23-1022-S33
  28. COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER AND PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT relative to holding a public hearing regarding the City's status of vacancies and recruitment and retention efforts prior to the adoption of the 2026-27 Budget, in accordance with Government Code… Council File 24-1458
  29. ANNUAL BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026-27 TO BE SUBMITTED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY, CITY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER AND CHIEF LEGISLATIVE ANALYST. TIME LIMIT FILE - JUNE 1, 2026 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - MAY 29, 2026) Final Budget Recap - 5-21-26 Budget Motions - 5-21-26… Council File 26-0600
  30. COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY CLERK relative to withdrawing a citizen-sponsored initiative from the November 3, 2026 ballot regarding the following subject: Repeal of Los Angeles City Business Taxes on All Businesses Except Cannabis Businesses Council File 26-1100-S7

Public comment

16 comment segments captured. Transcribed from auto-generated captions and excerpted for publication.

Noah Ornstein · Items 10, 11

Good morning. My name is Noah Ornstein and I'm speaking on agenda items 10, 11, and 12. Great. Thank you. Good morning, council members. My name is Noah Ornstein and I'm the director of industry partnerships at California Yimi, the sponsor of the important proousing bills you are endorsing today. The mission of California Yimi is to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. And in pursuit of this goal, California Yimi has been behind most of the important proousing legislation that has passed statewide in the last few years. As you know, California Yimi is a statewide organization with nearly 80,000 members, but I'm not appearing in front of you today as some …

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Unverified speaker · Public comment

General comment. The 14th amendment prevents states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. When officers expel people from the city council without giving them a court hearing, they are illegally depriving them of a basic liberty. Similarly, when officers leave barricades in the public hallway outside the council chamber without getting a court ruling, as they've been doing for the past 10 months, they are illegally depriving everyone of their liberty. There is no special rule giving permission to violate these rights. So, stop. Oh, yeah. And people are getting killed. Good morning. What

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Matt Teklay · Item 27

Great. Good morning, council members. My name is Matt Teklay and I'm with Safe Parking LA. I'm here to urge you today to restore funding for safe parking programs and the FY2627 budget. Right now, the proposed FY27 funding report only includes three months of operations funding to demobilize six safe parking sites. This comes on the heels of this body protecting five additional safe parking sites through general fund allocations. During those deliberations, the council recognized the value of these programs and chose to protect them. I urge you to show that same leadership today for the remainder of the city's safe parking portfolio. The CEO's office has already identified a viable funding …

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Unverified speaker · Public comment

Good morning, Gro. Always good to see you. I'll just say all items and general comment, please. Great. Item seven is regarding renaming the intersection of Rosco Boulevard and Langden Avenue as Bert and Jane Bulkman. And it doesn't say Bert and Jane Bulkman Square or anything. So, I guess we're just naming that intersection after this couple that Bert Bokeman ran Galpin Ford for a very long time. It's like one of the country's largest car dealerships. And I think in a time when vehicular injury and death is so high, in fact, just this morning, there was a deadly car crash on Woodman and Ventura Boulevard., it's a little tonedeaf to me to be naming an intersection after folks who made their …

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Jordan Panakvahad Government · Items 10, 11, 12

Good morning., 10, 11, and 12. Perfect. Good morning council. My name is Jordan Panakvahad government affairs manager for California Yimi. Yimi stands for yes in my backyard. I first want to thank the council for considering items 10, 11 and 12. Specifically on 11 and 12 specifically on condom mediums condos. We are not building enough condos in Los Angeles or in California statewide. And these two resolutions will unlock the support to building more condos, which is one of the most affordable ways for families and first-time homeowners to buy a home in California. One of two reasons why we're not building on 1406, the down payment to assisting more projects is not physically possible in …

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Keeping Track · General public comment

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Scott · Public comment

10, 11, and 12, please. Thank you. Good morning, council members and council president. My name is Scott Epstein. I'm the director of policy and research with Abundant Housing LA. Here in strong support of the state support resolutions under items 10, 11, and 12. these are AB1903, AB1406, and AB1070. All sponsored by our friends in California Yimi and high priorities for abundant housing LA. AB1903 and AB1406 solve key problems that have prevented us from building condominiums in this state. Condominiums have ground to a halt in the last 20 years. and AB1070 would study building code reforms to allow us to build the missing middle typologies beloved in Los Angeles. Think bungalow courts, …

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Matt Worsinger · Item 27

Item 27, please. Thank you. My name is Matt Worsinger and as the current board chair of Safe Parking LA, I urge you to fully restore funding for safe program safe parking programs in the fiscal year 2627 budget. I'm also a former neighborhood council president and I've walked our streets, including with some of you. and I've seen that we need more programs that actually work to get people off of our streets. Safe parking provides safe, stable, sanitized program with case management, pathways to housing, and all at a fraction of a cost of some of our other homeless solves. We get people off the streets. While some funding has already been restored, there are six additional sites that require …

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Unverified speaker · Public comment

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Daniel · General public comment

I'd like to speak on item 30 and general public comment, please. Yeah. hi council. My name is Daniel Sosa. I operate four licensed cannabis dispensaries in the city of LA. I'd like to share with you some of my thoughts about the upcoming tax amnesty program and why tax reduction is a necessary component of the program. The city of LA has created impossible conditions for retail cannabis business to operate in the city of Los Angeles. Cannabis businesses are taxed at 100 times the rate as other businesses in the city. Furthermore, the illicit market thrives, accounting for 60% of the market in the state by the state's own study. And to make matters even worse, DCR has been renewing license …

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Unverified speaker · Items 28, 29

there has been a request to continue items 28 and 29 to Wednesday, May 27. good morning, council members. Good morning. What

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Daniel · General public comment

my name is Daniel Jones. General public comment. about the equal rights amendment. This is all empirical evidence. The form is what the evidence is. Paragraph one is where it says seven-year time limit. That is in the con constitutional resolution. The second form paragraph is where the article is. There are four articles in the constitution in the amendments 18, 20, 21 and 22 where it is specifically in a section where it says the time limit is valid and operable. It is nowhere in the article for the equal proposed equal rights amendment. The stonewalling by the executive branch is saying that it is a time limit. There has never been a time limit. There's not one today and there is not one …

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Mel · Item 27

council president, council members, my name is Mel Takaratna. I am the executive director of the Shore of Hope. I'm here to speak on item 27., right now more than us, all of you guys know how desperate the people of LA are. Everybody's trying to hang in, trying to pay the rent. So, I'm here to ask all of you to make sure that the complete allocation for all safe parking programs are included in the HHIP allocation. and also to council members Hernandez and Hurado., you know, the mobile showers in both your districts are hanging on this HHIP allocation, so please make sure that's included as well. Thank you. Hello, I'm here to speak on item 27 in general public comment. My name is Edna …

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Deandre Davis · Item 27

Good morning. Item 27 in general public comment. Hi, good morning. My name is DeAndre Davis and I urge you today to restore the funding for safe parking programs for fiscal year 2627. Right now, the proposed fiscal year 27 funding reports includes only three months of operations funding to demobilize six safe parking sites. This comes on the heels of this body protecting five other safe parking sites through general fund allocations. During those deliberations, the council recognized the values of these programs and chose to protect them. And I urge you to show the same leadership today. The CAO's office has already identified a viable path forward, realigning HAPS funding by reducing the …

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Brandy Harris · Item 17

Good morning., I'm speaking on item number 17 and general comment. Okay. Good morning, Council President Harris Dawson, members of the Los Angeles City Council, and any other dignitaries present today. I want everyone to look at this picture. This is Akeem Jamal Coburn. And my name is Brandy Harris, an almost 15-year employee of the city of Los Angeles and the surviving fiance of Ake, known to many as AJ, whose life was tragically taken by gun violence nearly six years ago on July 29th, 2020. AJ was a gentle giant who accomplished everything he set his mind to. He was a loving father and partner, a devoted son, a loyal friend, and someone who genuinely cared for those around him. In the …

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From the council floor

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez · Council discussion

Council member Ramen seconds. What's next? Commendatory resolutions for approval.

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Councilmember Monica Rodriguez · Item 29

Council member Lee seconds. What's next? Mr. President, today is Tuesday and it's time for the flag salute. I'll ask everyone in the chambers to rise, face the flag, and follow along with Council Member Blumenfield. All right, place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Herman, that's your uh first warning and last warning for this morning. Want to make sure the city attorney is aware that Mr. Herman received a warning. Madam clerk, can you take us through our agenda? Thank you. Item number one is an item …

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Councilmember Monica Rodriguez · Item 27

27 for a separate vote. All right. Council member Ramen, I'd like to, like others, hold 27 on on the desk for potential amendments. I also did want to flag that this did not because of the timely nature of this funding report um and because of its intention to move forward quickly enough so that we could get contracts out in time and prevent some of the challenges from last year. Uh this you know this is here before the full council right now and there's a number of amendments that have been also given to me from the CAO that we I haven't had a chance to review. So, I want to make sure that members have a chance to review all of the amendments appropriately because it didn't because of the …

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Councilmember Adrin Nazarian · Council discussion

Thank you, Council President, and thank you to my colleague from the fifth council district for her work on uh the resolutions uh for the items on uh 9, 10, and 11. Um colleagues, today only 3% of all newly constructed housing in California is built for sale. Let me repeat that again so that it sinks in. Only 3% of annually constructed housing in California is built for sale. The rest is built for rental. We understand that land for development of single family houses is limited, but apartment buildings are still being built and they're being built in large numbers. These apartments could be made available for sale as condominiums, giving more families a shot at home ownership. States like …

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