Fire overtime, shelter care and climate accounting

Pamela · General public comment

the public council public. Yes. Good morning, President the council and council members. I am Pamela Robinson. I'm here on behalf of Dr. Frank Deg Gorville who has taught martial arts since 1978 in the underserved areas of Los Angeles. He is the founder of Why Are You Mad, a 501c program, not nonprofit organization serving the youth in neighborhoods as he has taught over 30,000 youth in most of the LA districts, various recreational and community centers, providing martial arts as a form of discipline for the underserved youth. His resume and accomplishments are too extensive to list. He is currently at the Rampar Police Station PAL program for the last 16 years. We'd like to acquire a …

Dr. Frank Degoville · Public comment

public. good morning, council president and all the council members that are present. My name is Dr. Frank Degoville, CEO and founder of Why Are You Mad? A nonprofit 501c3 organization. I'm in the ninth district located at 948 West 59th Place. I've been using my personal residence for the past 45 years as a safe haven for the underserved youths in the south central Los Angeles teaching martial arts as a form of discipline. I am seeking funding, grants, and all donation to help expand my program to build a recreational center in the nine district. I would like the district in number nine and the city council here to help advocate for this vision. All the council members are invited to my …

Marisa Palma · Public comment

Is our fire department appropriately funded to hear that we have projected deficits and overtime salaries requirements. It begs the question. We continue to know that we have huge wildfire danger in our city and we know that firefighters time is diverted to 911 calls for drug overdoses for homeless encampments and that type of danger that is going on in our streets that is not directly firefighting. So is our fire department appropriately staffed? Our equipment did you budget appropriately for that? we continue to build in very high fire hazard severity zones without designating evacuation routes. That's going to just put more pressure on LA's fire department. And I don't understand how you …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

Item eight, general comment. Item seven. So, item seven relates to appointing a permanent general manager for the department of animal services. So I think it's a very good question to ask whether this general manager of the department of animal services will work to ensure basic needs of the animals in the shelters are being met. This is things like walking the dogs, making sure they're fed, that everyone's fed, all that stuff that seems to be something that the Department of Animal Services seems to severely struggle with. So hopefully this is stuff that will be addressed. Of course, obviously, you got to give them enough money to do so. You all just voted to give them LAPD $3.6 billion …

Unverified speaker · Public comment

General comment.

Aean · General public comment

Public comment. We are a we're a package deal. Can we squeeze it into one minute together? Fantastic. Ready? Yes. Okay. Well, well, council members, thank you for your time and everything that you do. I've done clearly there is amazing stuff happening here in LA and you are doing a great job. However, we think more can be done. So, we are going to overthrow the government and take it from here. Take it from here. I'm Ember. My name is Aean and that's Aean and we are and I'm going to be the king. I I thought I was going to be king. Well, you have to pick something. We will figure this out. No, you have to pick something else now. But we Prince. I'm the prince. I will I will take over at some …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

Good afternoon. general public comment. Good afternoon, city council. To everyone who is leading in their elections, congratulations to Miss Ramen. Bravo. We all have a lot to accomplish in the next few years. I hope you can redirect rededicate yourselves to this city and only to this city to do your very best. We must serve all of LA's people. We are truly lucky to live in the greatest city in the country. But we are slipping. Working together, listening to each other. We can and will make Los Angeles the greatest city in the world.

Unverified speaker · Items 7, 8

Hold my time, sir. Hold my time. sir?, I'm going to take a shot at 78 and public comment. Granada. I'm starting with public comment. Please let me just And I apologize. I'll start with jump. Okay. Thank you. Anyway, to see and I want to thank Miss Padilla to see these Hispanic kids so many years. I've been up there since 1985 and over and over again I would ask where are those the Latino kids? Did you see them today? How many were there? That's happening all over the place. And it happens because those of you who are Latino are becoming great examples. The rest of you are becoming great examples for your community, but we must work harder. We need to catch up. We're still behind. So, Miss …

Unverified speaker · General public comment

the rules. So again on number seven, appropriately named for the animal services, Gabrielle Hamster to the position of general manager. Everybody, that's right. I saw you niss laugh at that. I saw it. Shame on you. Shame. Shame on you. So, Mrs. Hamster apparently wants $16,000 more of our tax money cuz she had to get a U-Haul and move, Bob. $16,000 more. And you're going to give it to her, aren't you? Because why, Bob? Because you can. There's no FBI. There's no DOJ. There's no elections. There is no repercussions for stealing our tax money, right? Oh, yes. So, now we get to the next The unused sick time for the LA Fire Department. The fire department that was cut by who? You. All 15 of you …

Unverified speaker · Budget and funding

Next, commendatory resolutions for approval. Great. Councilwoman Yashlowski moves. Uh, Councilwoman Lee, Council Member Lee seconds. Let's uh What's next? Would you like for me to run through the agenda, Mr. President? Yes, let's do that. Thank you, Mr. President. Items 1 through six are items for which public hearings have been held. Please note, there is a technical correction for item three. The item should read CD4, not CD7. Items seven and eight are items for which public hearings have not been held. For item eight, the budget and finance committee report has been circulated and posted online to council file number 26-0720. 10 votes are required for consideration. Great. Without …

Councilmember John S. Lee · Council action

Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to ask if we can continue item number four until June 26th. Okay. Without objection, that item is continued. Uh colleagues, any other specials or comments? Okay. Um we can now what can we vote on? The council may now vote on items 1 through three, five, and six. Okay, those items are now before us. Seeing no members on the queue, let's open the roll, close the roll, and tally the votes. 10 eyes. Great. Uh those items are approved. What's next? Council may now vote move on to presentations. Great. We will begin with uh Council President Marqueis Harris Dawson uh for our first presentation honoring uh five different schools. All right. I'll ask our students …

Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez · Council discussion

Thank you. Thank you, Council President, for this wonderful presentation. And um thank you to the educators, the all the all the adults who really helped create the pathways for this to be a possibility. And to the young people, congratulations on your incredible dedication and hard work coming to fruition on such an an important step in your lives. And all I have to share with you all is that as you continue to grow and advance in these spaces that sometimes it's going to feel like these spaces aren't built for us or that we might not belong. And I want you to know that you have everything you need within you to make a difference and be leaders in these spaces. And yes, sometimes these …

Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson · Council discussion

thank you for a truly inspiring presentation. uh really was it was special to to meet all of the students here and hear about this amazing accomplishment. Back to you to close. Thank you so much uh Mr. President and thank you members uh for the generosity and of spirit that you've extended to these uh students from our community who have this incredible accomplishment. Each school has a certificate uh that we're going to ask them to put on the wall so that the students that come behind you can can have something to work towards. So, when you get 100% acceptance next year and the year after that, we're going to keep on coming here to Los Angeles City Hall. Thank you all so much. We're so …

Councilmember John S. Lee · Budget and funding

the floor is yours. Thank you, Mr. President and colleagues. Today, I am especially uh proud to welcome the Granada Hills Charter High School Academic Decathlon Team Council Chambers as we celebrate an extraordinary accomplishment. You know, as a proud high uh Granada Hills High alumnist, I have to admit that today is particularly special for me. There are some things that never leave you, and Granada pride is certainly one of them. Granada Hills Charter captured the 2026 United States Academic Decathlon Championship, and that deserves a round of applause. Granada secured its 10th national title in the last 15 years and once again proving that excellence is part of the school's DNA. But …

Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky · Council discussion

Uh, thank you so much, Councilwoman Herado, for bringing this presentation to council this morning. Today, I am very proud to recognize Rabbi Hannah Jensen as Council District 5's 2026 Pride Month honore. Rabbi Jensen is a leader whose work reflects the very best of Los Angeles. As a rabbi, educator, and director of community organizing at ECAR, she's de dedicated her career to building stronger communities and ensuring that more people have a voice in shaping the future of our city. She works across multiple faiths and diverse backgrounds to address some of our region's most pressing challenges, advancing immigrant and refugee rights, supporting individuals in recovery, and advocating for …

Councilmember Imelda Padilla · Council discussion

Yes. Hi everyone. Good morning. I think we're still in the morning. Before I start, I want to thank Maria Arcoites for being here today. I I think they keep getting better and better every time I see them. The white today was epic. So whether they're in the back or wherever they are, I just want to thank them for being part of the whole presentation. Um, council member Hurado, I really like your theme, queer joy as resistance. So when I was thinking through who I wanted, I knew that my honory today, Eileen Enriquez, is exactly somebody who embodies that. She is someone who I am grateful to recognize as a San Frernando Valley leader who is truly doing incredible life-changing work in my …

Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson · Council discussion

Thank you so much. And thank you to all my colleagues for all these amazing honores. And thank you uh to the leader uh on this council of our great celebration every year, the one and only council member Isabelle Hurado. Let's give her another big round of applause. This stuff isn't easy to do. uh and so we recognize her work. Uh I have the pleasure of presenting two honores today. Uh first uh for council district 8, I'm proud to recognize uh my friend and an organizer whom I look up to one Mr. Ernesto Roa. Ernesto is a storyteller, an organizer, an artist, an artist, an altterista whose work uplifts community voices and preserves the cultural memory through art, storytelling, and public …

Councilmember Tim McOsker · Council action

Thank you so much. We are going to bring it home one more time once again. Yay. Uh but I do I will be introducing a motion later to say that when we go in chronological order someday we have to go from 15 to one. Okay. Or give me credit for 15. We call it 1.5. And I'll go after aus. How's that? Save the best of last. Save the best of last. Colleagues in my district, it is my privilege to stand alongside the5s 2026 Pride Heritage Month honore, Mr. David Crowley. David spent two decades as an entertainment publicist working alongside superstars like Michael Jackson, Guns and Roses, and Nirvana. And while he enjoyed the success of that fabulous career, he wanted something more. He wanted to do …