I I thought the first one was being held for later comment. Yes, it is. So, just to clarify, if you are here just for item number one,, please wait because we will have a separate hearing for item number one. So,, if you're already lined up and you're here for item number one,, please let the sergeants know and then we'll wait for you can. Yes, you can give general public comment now if you would like though. Okay. So, I assume one minute for general then. Yeah.
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Streetlight fees, worker schedules and skateboards
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Agenda items
- HEAR PROTESTS relative to instituting maintenance assessment proceedings of the City of Los Angeles Streetlight Maintenance Assessment District No. 5500. Pursuant to Council adoption of Ordinance of Intention No. 188892 on March 24, 2026. The tabulation of ballots shall take… Council File 26-0331
- HEARING APPEALS and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to the proposed 2026 Annual Weed and Brush Abatement Program Council File 26-0416
- HEARING COMMENTS relative to an Application for Determination of Public Convenience or Necessity for the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-site consumption at Painting with a Twist, located at 21425 Devonshire Street. Applicant: Messy Paintress LLC Representative: Maria Impala… Council File 19-1186-S1
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Parcel Map L.A. No. 2024-6998, located at 14517 West Hesby Street westerly of Van Nuys Boulevard Council File 26-0673
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Parcel Map L.A. No. 2024-2692, located at 1612 West 206th Street, westerly of Harvard Boulevard Council File 26-0761
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Tract No. 82210, located at 5808 North Etiwanda Avenue, south of Oxnard Street Council File 26-0762
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Parcel Map L.A. No. 2024-3671, located at 4849 North Glacier Drive southerly of Neola Street Council File 26-0767
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Tract No. 82259, located at 4544 North Eagle Rock Boulevard, southerly of Corliss Street Council File 26-0780
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY ENGINEER relative to the final map of Tract No. 84466, located at 856, 862, 868 and 870 South Gramercy Drive, north of 9th Street Council File 26-0781
- COMMUNICATION FROM THE MAYOR relative to the exemption of one Process Safety Engineer (Class Code 7962) position for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) from the Civil Service pursuant to Charter Section 1001(b) Council File 26-0759
- CDs 6, 11 MOTION (YAROSLAVSKY - HERNANDEZ) relative to funding to sustain a dedicated street lighting crew and additional repair work in Council District 11 (CD 11) Council File 26-0011-S6
- MOTION (BLUMENFIELD - HERNANDEZ) relative to funding for the establishment and implementation of a Peer-to-Peer Training and Certification Pilot Program in Council District Three (CD 3) Council File 26-0772
- MOTION (LEE for MCOSKER - NAZARIAN) relative to funding for services in connection with Council District 15's (CD 15) special recognition of Croatia Statehood Day, including the illumination of City Hall on May 29, 2026 Council File 26-0773
- MOTION (PARK - RODRIGUEZ) relative to issuing the appropriate Right of Entry permit, and any other necessary documents, to organizers / sponsors of the upcoming skateboarding event, The Nine Club Cup Council File 26-0778
- MOTION (NAZARIAN - HERNANDEZ) relative to resolving to waive its review of the anticipated June 1, 2026 action of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners vote in favor of ballot for Streetlight Maintenance Assessment Council File 26-0789
- PUBLIC SAFETY and ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEES' REPORT and ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERATION relative to transferring the Climate Emergency Mobilization Office from the Department of Public Works to the Emergency Management Department Council File 25-0600-S131
- MOTION (NAZARIAN - BLUMENFIELD) relative to waiving review of the anticipated June 1, 2026 action of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners for the payment of fees to the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District regading the Los Angeles Department of Water and… Council File 26-0796
Public comment
22 comment segments captured. Transcribed from auto-generated captions and excerpted for publication.
hi. I'd like to speak to the community criminal activity in Los Angeles. I think that the street lighting ties to the criminal activity in the city overall. you know, with all the thefts of the copper wiring, there's really u uncontrolled security for citizens, that ties to like the theft of the catalytic converters, homelessness, and overall destruction of communities because it's not safe to be around the neighborhood. And I think the city needs to focus their budget on keeping the communities clean and safe instead of wasting money. Thank you.
▶ Play from 1:03:14a general comment about the street light assessment fee. the people such as Nithia Ramen and other people who purport themselves as dogooders do not realize they're actually sabotaging the renters because if you need to understand that the people you're trying to force to pay the streetlight assessment fee are mostly mom and pop. We are lower middle class now like a beauty shop or a liquor store. If you put us out of business, big developers are going to buy our properties. They charge $2,000 for a single. We charge two thou two 2,500 for two to three bedrooms. You're actually you're actually sabotaging. You're getting people to vote for you or renters. Out of the back hand, you're handing …
▶ Play from 1:04:34I just want to clarify because I think there's been a little bit of confusion. So again, to repeat, item number one, the actual hearing for that will be held during this meeting at a later time. However, if you would still like to provide general public comment as you've seen other speakers done do before, you can give general public comment which can also include this item now if you would like. Good morning. What
▶ Play from 1:05:42Yes. Thank you, Gro. Three minutes for the items and one minute for general. Appreciate you. I'll start with item 12. This is $300,000 to support peer-to-peer training. What's the wording y'all use here? It's Oh, yes. Peer-to-peer training and certification pilot program in CD3. This is relating to a workforce development entity, which is one of those things that like in theory it sounds great, sounds like something we should be doing., but it it feels kind of not enough in this economy to be kind of throwing money at peer-to-peer workforce training when people with college degrees, with advanced degrees, master's degrees, PhDs,, aren't finding work in this economy. I think we need to be …
▶ Play from 1:06:04Good morning. My name is Blanca Romero and I'm here to give a public comment. And we need this ordinance to pass because we need there to be rules in terms of scheduling. Right now it's up to the bosses whether they want to schedule us on a weekly basis, monthly basis, daily basis. And this has obligated us with more with more working experience to have to look for other jobs for second jobs while at the same time the bosses go out and hire new people to cover the hours that we want to cover. This doesn't make any sense. And it's also it's also endangering the economic well-being of lots of fast food workers. Please support the fast food ordinance. Investing in fast food workers means …
▶ Play from 1:10:20Gloria. Good morning. My name is Gloria Vencio and I work for Subway. here to give public comment. I am asking with urgency for you guys to approve the fast the fair fast food ordinance. And do it without further delay. And we need this ordinance to pass. This would give us the same rights as other businesses because we need the hours. And this has affected many people including me. my hours they change on a dime. some or are canceled sometimes without even prior knowledge. And many of us had h have had to go and find second jobs., and this affects my ability to pay my bills. I need I need more complete and predictable hours in order to be able to pay my bills. But right now without any …
▶ Play from 1:12:43However, can I have the interpreters also make this announcement too? if anyone would like to leave additional public comment in writing, you can do so at lounsilcomment.com. And you can find that URL at the top of every council agenda or by doing a quick internet search. I will begin calling. Yeah, I'll keep calling names. Anan say, Aalina Lopez, Gloria Villa Visino, Haron Julie Marian. Good morning. What
▶ Play from 1:15:23Republic. And then when I get back, I am able to relax knowing that I since I have paid time off, I will be able to pay my rent as well as my bills.
▶ Play from 1:16:25So, I'm a little confused about the procedure because I'm allowed to speak on the general as a general comment. Right. This on item number one. Okay. All right. So, my name is Rose Kato. I'm a community advocate and homeowner. Also, I am a constituent of Tracy Park, CD11. how can ordinance 188892 state the people of the city of Los Angeles do so ordain as follows? When less than 600,000 ballots were mailed with an Angelino population of 3.8 million, the city wasted $1 million on this special ballot with 500,000 spent on administrative costs. The ordinance states the boundaries of district 5500 include all city me streets with existing permanent street lights. The ordinance affirms that all …
▶ Play from 1:18:33I just have some general comments. My name My name is Julie Mararyian from the Apartment Owners Association of California. We represent over 20,000 housing providers in mainly in LA. I want to say that I have reached out to every single city council member and most of you have failed to respond. We have asked for meetings because our members represent the areas where you represent and we would like to have a sitdown meeting with every single member. And I will say that Nazarian Ramen Rodriguez Hut Park Hugo Martinez Hurdo and Harris Dawson. I don't know if it's your staff who is failing you, but we need to have a meeting. Thank you.
▶ Play from 1:20:18Chess. Number 14. God damn it, lawyer. the damn streets. Many times I see someone a chubby guy like you running around with their stupid motorized thing. So, you know, look at this damn problem. Smok and scan. You see smoke and scan. Number three, chubby. Here it says English, please. We don't need no public necessity for more alcohol. Yes, you can't even deal with your cannabis issue. Let alone you can't even deal with alcohol sales Bob while you stuff your fat face and that drink in your mouth when Paul has alcohol. Gobble gobble. But anyways, for the record, vote no on item three. No more alcohol. After all, Caesar Chavez used alcohol as an excuse to minors. Right. Right. And Javier Bera …
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▶ Play from 1:27:48Good morning, council., I would like to speak to landlords. My name is Debbie and we are as a landlord, we are vital to our communities and we are vital to LA County. And when there are so many things hitting landlords, many of us are leaving or are dropping out. And if we really want to help the homeless situation, it's not going to work by putting all fees, all taxes, and so many restrictions on landlords because what happens is they leave. No landlords, less housing. And we need the landlords and we need fair landlords and we need landlords that are willing to work with people. But when we have so many crazy rules and restrictions, we have to be careful or we will lose our shirts. Good …
▶ Play from 1:29:14general comment. Any other speakers? Oh, okay. All the names have been called. All right. thank everybody who came for public comment this morning. madame clerk, what's before us? Yes. And actually before we do that, Mr. Mr. President, I do recommend that we vote on at a minimum item 15 that is the 245 waiver. but if council would like believe we can also vote on the other items that are available if we want to do the hearing for number one last. Yeah, let's exhaust all the items then do the hearing then vote on number one. How about that? All right. Let's open the roll, close the roll, tabulate the vote. 13 eyes. All right. What's next? And if the council may take an extra vote for urgent …
▶ Play from 1:30:32I have 30 the further five documents I'd like to enter into the record. item number one. Yes. We'll have the LAPD sergeants come and collect those. Okay. So again, my name is Rose Kato. I am a consumer advocate and home owner and also a constituent of Tracy Park and CD11. How can ordinance 188892 state the people of the city of Los Angeles do so ordain as follows when less than 600,000 ballots were mailed with an Angelino population of 3.8 million? The ordinance states the boundaries of district 5500 include all city streets with existing permanent street lights. The ordinance affirms that all parcels within the district will receive special benefits. The ordinance directed the Department …
▶ Play from 1:35:08[clears throat] Yeah. I'm just com commenting further on the street lights. my cousin and I have owned apartment buildings in Van Eyes since our family since the 1950s. the city continues to get worse and worse as far as what it pays for and does. trashes all over the streets. You got you know limbs falling down from trees, hitting the power lines, landing on cars. We asked for them to trim them. They never do. So, we have to trim them ourselves and it's a complete mess, you know? I mean, there potholes everywhere. My my car almost stopped working after I hit this humongous pothole. When do you guys start paying for the stuff that you should be paying for instead of looking for more money …
▶ Play from 1:38:11PV. You dirty bunch of Look at what you've done here with this godamn tax. A bunch of wrote this. It's a Los Angeles streetlight maintenance assessment district. You dirty bunch of nwords. Come on. Give me What are you going to do now, So, I'm going to ask you to stick to the item. Come on, Otherwise, you're going to forfeit your speech. You're offic You're off topic. Isn't that one of the words, Mr. City attorney? Hear the rod. Stop my t. Isn't that one of the words? Yeah. Is that one?
▶ Play from 1:40:42Yes. You got to give me a warning. I warned you to get back on topic. No, no, no. You got to give me a warning. At this point, you're now disrupting. This is your second warning for disrupting the meeting. I need you to vacate the podium relative to Mr. President, he has been warned to vacate the podium. He's already forfeited his speaking time and he is eligible for removal pursuant to rule council rule 7 rule 12 if you would like. Pursuant to rule seven and 12, Mr. Spindler is removed from this meeting. I want to Mr. Spindler, you've been removed from Mr. Spindler, you've been removed from this meeting. I'm on topic. talk about. It's too late. You were asked multiple times to get on …
▶ Play from 1:41:47and apologies. I believe. Have you already spoken on item one? Right. Hi, again, my name is Debbie. I'm also a part of the AOA association. And like I said earlier, landlords are vital to not just our cities and states and counties, but to our nation. without good landlords, people don't all have a good place to live. And so, like she was saying, what's going on with the budget? Why don't you have the money that you need to do these things? So, speaker, I'm going to ask this is for item one only to protest here.
▶ Play from 1:47:38Good morning. I have a comment on the street lighting. are you guys once it if it passes, are you going to focus on certain areas that are more high income or on low income areas too? And then second if I'm paying for it, then I'm going to maintain it the way I want to maintain it. Thank you. And we've already announced if you have not given public comment on this item and you would like to to please come forward. Mr. President, I do not see anyone else. So, I believe we've exhausted public comment on this item. Before we close the hearing, I believe the clerk's office has an announcement. And before we close the hearing, is anyone here with a ballot for this item? If not, and I don't see …
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council member Padia second. What's next? Commendatory resolutions for approval.
▶ Play from 50:35Council member Ramen seconds. What's next? Mr. President, today is Tuesday and it's time for the flag salute. All right, we'll ask everyone in the chamber to rise, face the flag, and follow along with Council Member McCoscer. Thank you, Mr. President. 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. All right. Uh before we run through our agenda, I want to uh yield the floor to Council Member McCoscer for a special announcement. Oh, thank you very much, Mr. President. We have some guests here today on our last day of this election process. Uh we want to welcome this …
▶ Play from 50:40Yes. Thank you, colleagues. Um, before we adjourn today, I wanted to take a moment to recognize and remind us all that June is immigrant heritage month here in the state of California. Los Angeles is a city that we all know is built by immigrants. The courage, sacrifice, and determination have shaped every corner of our communities and have helped to make Los Angeles the extraordinary city that it is. As the daughter of Mexican immigrants, I know firsthand the experience is rooted in hope and an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. It takes tremendous courage to leave behind everything that you're familiar with in order to create and pursue an opportunity for yourself and for the future …
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