Meeting Summary
What Happened
Council Member Price recused himself from Item 10. The council adopted, without recorded opposition, Item 21, a Hernandez motion directing the Youth Development Department, working with the Chief Legislative Analyst, LAUSD, and community-based organizations, to develop a framework for meaningful youth participation in the city's independent redistricting commission, citing more than 400,000 LAUSD students with no direct voice in how their districts are drawn.
Contested Votes
Item 12 (Housing and Homelessness Committee report on the Homelessness Emergency Account's 22nd status report as of November 30, 2024) passed 12-1, with Council Member Rodriguez casting the lone no vote. No floor debate accompanied the vote.
Item 20 (Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee report and resolution establishing the city's position on legislation to amend the State Density Bonus Law so that evacuation routes within and near Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones are not overwhelmed by dense development impeding safe evacuation) passed 12-2, with Hernandez and Raman voting no. Council Member Raman, who also opposed the item in committee, said she supports preventing overdevelopment in high fire-risk zones given real safety challenges in the wildland-urban interface, but argued the resolution's language was overly broad and risked fueling anti-density "fear-mongering" that reduces support for housing citywide, including in safer areas that could otherwise accommodate more density. She said she hoped future legislation would focus density in safer areas while protecting people from building in the most fire-prone zones.
Public Comment
Several fast-food workers, including employees of McDonald's, urged the council to agendize the Fair Work Week extension for fast-food workers, describing unsafe working conditions (including a slippery walk-in freezer that had trapped or injured coworkers), unpredictable scheduling, wage and hour cuts, and a lack of paid time off. One speaker, a single mother of six who described being homeless while employed by a large restaurant chain, said her hours were repeatedly cut without warning.
Contested Votes
Tallies and member votes are the official record (LA City Clerk CVVS). Descriptions are drawn from the meeting transcript.
Item 12 — CF 22-1545-S25 (Adopted): Housing and Homelessness Committee report on the Homelessness Emergency Account's 22nd status report as of November 30, 2024.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Monica Rodriguez |
| Absent (2) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price |
Item 20 — CF 25-0002-S2 (Adopted): Resolution establishing the city's position on legislation amending the State Density Bonus Law to protect evacuation routes in and near Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones from dense development.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (2) | Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman |
| Absent (1) | Bob Blumenfield |