What Happened
Thirteen of fifteen members voted through most of the session, with two absent. The 21-item calendar cleared largely without dissent; two items divided the Council.
Item 21 (CF 24-0600) — the fiscal year 2024-25 budget. The Council adopted the annual budget resolution 10-3, with Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martinez opposed. The resolution is the one submitted by the City Attorney, City Administrative Officer and Chief Legislative Analyst, and its adoption is the vote that sets the city's spending for the year.
The captions for this stretch of the meeting are badly degraded — the clerk's tally is rendered as "Ten eyes 39. No." and the surrounding exchange is unintelligible — so no floor debate on the budget can be reported from the record. What is certain is the outcome and who was on which side: the three votes against came from the Council's left, and the Encino Neighborhood Council was the one body to file a community impact statement on the item.
Item 13 (CF 24-4118-S1) designates locations in Council District 12 for enforcement under Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18, against sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing personal property in the public right-of-way. The sites are 1577 Roscoe Boulevard and three freeway underpasses: Woodley Avenue at the 118, and Lassen Street and Plummer Street at the 405.
No member asked to be heard, and the Lee–Park resolution was tabulated at 10-3. Raman then asked to be registered as a no; the Council President confirmed with the clerk that it would not change the outcome, and the result was restated as 9-4, with Hernandez, Raman, Soto-Martinez and Katy Yaroslavsky opposed. It was adopted.
The meeting closed with adjourning motions, including Council Member Kevin de León rising to acknowledge an officer who served the city from 1971 to 2006.