Meeting Summary
What Happened
The council met on May 6, 2025, with 11-14 members present. The council adopted two motions from Council Member Ysabel Jurado without opposition: Item 40, directing the Housing Department to create a centralized, multilingual, searchable online database of all affordable housing units produced through incentive programs such as the state density bonus and Transit Oriented Communities program — first requested in a motion Jurado introduced in April 2023 — after noting the department's existing affordable-housing registry, created under a 2016 settlement agreement, does not include all TOC units; and Item 42, a revised motion addressing zoning and land-use issues in El Sereno, which Jurado described as the product of extended community meetings with the planning director aimed at correcting the effects of what she called inconsistent zoning and poor land-use practices that have historically harmed the neighborhood. Council Member Curren Price recused himself from Item 39 due to uncertainty over whether a property buyer had been selected. The council also adopted a corrected Personnel and Hiring Committee report ordinance on a motion from Council Member Tim McOsker (Item 32).
Contested Votes
The council adopted, 11-3-1, a joint Public Safety, Budget and Finance, and Personnel and Hiring Committees' report accepting a grant award for the Fiscal Year 2024 Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program (Item 35, CF 25-0031). Council Members Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado, and Hugo Soto-Martinez voted no without floor comment.
The council adopted, 11-3-1, second consideration of an ordinance formally establishing a Los Angeles Harbor Department Port Police Reserve Corps (Item 37, CF 25-0348). The same three members — Hernandez, Jurado, and Soto-Martinez — voted no without floor comment.
Public Comment
A speaker criticized the city's use of auto-deleting group chats among officials, alleging the practice was suspended only after the January wildfires drew heightened public-records scrutiny, and criticized a pending request for $125,000 in outside counsel to defend the city and mayor's office in related public-records litigation as a poor use of funds during a budget crisis. The same speaker and others criticized the mayor's continued delay — described as roughly 10 months past a self-imposed deadline — in appointing members to the city's Charter Reform Commission.
Contested Votes
Tallies and member votes are the official record (LA City Clerk CVVS). Descriptions are drawn from the meeting transcript.
Item 35 — CF 25-0031 (Adopted): Accepting a grant award for the Fiscal Year 2024 Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Hiring Program.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, 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 |
| Absent (1) | Heather Hutt |
Item 37 — CF 25-0348 (Adopted): Second consideration of an ordinance formally establishing a Los Angeles Harbor Department Port Police Reserve Corps.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, 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 |
| Absent (1) | Heather Hutt |