Meeting Summary
What Happened
Council Members Price and Lee both recused themselves from Item 1 due to personal or family business connections to the outside law firm involved. The council recessed into closed session to discuss Item 1 before returning to vote. The council also adopted, without recorded opposition, Item 29, a Hernandez motion committing $100,000 in CD1 council office funds to a tenant rental-assistance and eviction-prevention program administered with CCMP and the Community Investment for Families Department, citing an average of nearly 99 eviction notices filed per week in CD1 in 2025 with average rental debt of $3,656 per case.
Contested Votes
Item 1 (continued Budget and Finance Committee report amending the city's outside-counsel contract with Nossaman LLP to increase its authorized contract amount) prompted a substitute motion from Council Member Soto-Martinez, which would have capped the increase at $100,000 while requiring the City Attorney to report back within one month on the financial risk of the underlying claims, within three months on settlement progress, and on the feasibility of eventually moving the litigation's management in-house or consolidating related lawsuits. The motion to substitute failed 4-9, with Blumenfield, Harris-Dawson, Hutt, McOsker, Nazarian, Padilla, Park, Rodriguez, and Yaroslavsky voting no. The council then adopted the original, unamended committee recommendation 9-4, with Hernandez, Jurado, Raman, and Soto-Martinez voting no.
Item 15 (Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee report on the feasibility of allowing LAUSD Board of Education candidates to participate in the city's Public Matching Funds Program) passed 12-3 on reconsideration, with Lee, McOsker, and Yaroslavsky voting no. No floor debate accompanied the vote.
Item 22 (Yaroslavsky-McOsker motion funding additional LAPD police services in CD5) initially passed 13-2, with Hernandez and Soto-Martinez voting no, then was reconsidered at Council Member Jurado's request and re-adopted 12-3, with Hernandez, Jurado, and Soto-Martinez voting no.
Item 23 (Yaroslavsky-Park motion funding a Jewish American Heritage Month celebration from the city's Heritage Month Celebrations and Special Events fund) passed a preliminary vote on whether to adopt a substitute motion 14-1, with Jurado casting the lone no vote; the substitute motion itself then passed unanimously.
Item 32 (continued consideration of a Padilla-Lee resolution designating locations in CD6 for LAMC Section 41.18 enforcement against sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing property in the public right-of-way) passed 11-4, with Hernandez, Jurado, Raman, and Soto-Martinez voting no.
Public Comment
A representative of the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) opposed Item 22, questioning why the council would approve additional LAPD funding in CD5 without a defined scope or contract details given the city's projected billion-dollar budget deficit, after the council had already committed roughly $1 billion in additional LAPD funding over four years the prior year. The same speaker opposed Item 32, arguing the city's own data shows LAMC 41.18 enforcement zones do not reduce homelessness, instead disconnecting unhoused residents from services, support systems, and important documents by displacing them between council districts.
Contested Votes
Tallies and member votes are the official record (LA City Clerk CVVS). Descriptions are drawn from the meeting transcript.
Item 1 — CF 25-0169 (vote 1 of 2) (Failed): Motion to substitute Council Member Soto-Martinez's alternative outside-counsel funding and reporting plan for the Nossaman LLP contract amendment.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (4) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Nithya Raman, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (9) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| Absent (2) | Curren D. Price, John Lee |
Item 1 — CF 25-0169 (vote 2 of 2) (Adopted): Original, unamended Budget and Finance Committee recommendation to increase the authorized amount of the outside-counsel contract with Nossaman LLP.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (9) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (4) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Nithya Raman, Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (2) | Curren D. Price, John Lee |
Item 15 — CF 25-0183 (Adopted): Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee report on the feasibility of allowing LAUSD Board of Education candidates to participate in the city's Public Matching Funds Program.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (3) | John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Tim Mcosker |
Item 22 — CF 25-0275 (vote 1 of 2) (Adopted): Yaroslavsky-McOsker motion funding additional LAPD police services in CD5.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (13) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (2) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez |
Item 22 — CF 25-0275 (vote 2 of 2) (Adopted): Reconsidered vote on the Yaroslavsky-McOsker motion funding additional LAPD police services in CD5.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (3) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Ysabel Jurado |
Item 23 — CF 22-0149-S2 (Adopted): Vote on whether to substitute Council Member Yaroslavsky's substitute motion for the Jewish American Heritage Month celebration funding item.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (1) | Ysabel Jurado |
Item 32 — CF 25-4118-S2 (Adopted): Padilla-Lee resolution designating locations in CD6 for LAMC Section 41.18 enforcement against sitting, lying, sleeping, or storing property in the public right-of-way.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Heather Hutt, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (4) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Nithya Raman, Ysabel Jurado |