Meeting Summary
What Happened
Items 13 and 14 were held on the desk. The council adopted, without recorded opposition, a large slate of items covering nuisance-abatement liens, LADWP infrastructure and easement agreements (including the Navajo Generating Station interconnection agreements and related contracts), and airport concession and services contracts.
Among the substantive items adopted without recorded opposition: a Park-Blumenfield motion (Item on residential eviction protections) adding Article 22 to Chapter IV of the LAMC to temporarily prohibit residential evictions based solely on tenants housing people or pets displaced by the January 2025 wildfires; a Housing and Homelessness Committee report examining the prevalence of algorithm-based rent-setting software among landlords and the feasibility of banning its use in the city; a Harris-Dawson-Blumenfield resolution formally ratifying the Mayor's January 7 and January 13, 2025 Declarations of Local Emergency for the windstorm and wildfire event; and reports advancing supportive and interim housing projects, including a $2,500,000 tax-exempt mortgage revenue note for The Brine Residential supportive housing project in CD14 and a sole-source agreement with DignityMoves for interim housing at 5301 Sierra Vista in CD13.
Public Comment
A representative of an animal-welfare and pet-inclusive housing coalition urged support for the wildfire eviction-protection motion, citing more than 11,000 homes destroyed and an estimated 6,600 animals displaced by the fires, and thanked Council Members Park and Blumenfield for introducing it. A representative of the TransLatin@ Coalition thanked several council members for their continued advocacy on immigrant and transgender community issues and urged the city to allocate Measure A and Measure ULA funding toward housing for transgender, gender-expansive, and intersex communities, citing a recent $7 million investment established by LA County's Board of Supervisors for a similar fund.