Meeting Summary
What Happened
The meeting opened with 10 members present, reaching 12 then a full 15-member complement at various points. There were no members absent for the bulk of the substantive votes; the only notable absence was Council Member Curren Price, who recused himself from the entire Item 79 (Measure ULA) discussion on city attorney advice, and was absent for several procedural Item 67 votes late in the day. Council Member Ysabel Jurado left near the end to respond to a fire emergency in her district (CD14), causing several late charter votes to be taken with 12 members present.
The Council adopted a large block of routine matters without controversy, including a slate of 38 closed-session legal settlements (Items 29–66) totaling several million dollars, ranging from $115,000 up to a $6.5 million settlement in Jonine Jones et al. v. City of Los Angeles (Item 53) and a $5.8 million settlement in Alexander Recy Smith et al. (Item 63). Council Member Katy Yaroslavsky, as budget chair, recommended approval after the budget committee reviewed them June 4. Items 1 and 2 (nuisance abatement liens on Vineland Avenue properties) were continued to June 23. Item 78 (the Palisades fire ULA exemption) passed unanimously 15-0; it would prepare ballot language for a one-time, five-year ULA tax exemption for residential property owners impacted by the January 2025 Palisades fire. Council Member Eunisses Hernandez secured commitments that the eventual ordinance be narrowly tailored to first sales after January 7, 2025, owners of record on that date, and primary residences only.
The bulk of the meeting (Item 67 and related Items 68–77) concerned the Charter Reform package — the city's first major charter overhaul since 1999 — which the Council processed page-by-page like a budget, generating two dozen contested votes. Item 27/67 (the Charter Reform Commission recommendations, CF 26-0489) was handled in a separate special meeting.
Contested Votes
Item 14 (CF 25-1433-S1) — Runyon Canyon security funding. Adopted 14-1, with Council Member Imelda Padilla voting no on establishing an ongoing funding source for daily nighttime security at Runyon Canyon Park (7:00 p.m.–1:00 a.m.) in CD4. Padilla later raised this vote pointedly during the parks charter debate, objecting that the Council was willing to fund private security at "the best, most beautiful, well-funded park in Los Angeles" while her district parks went without.
Item 79 (CF 23-0038-S15) — Measure ULA amendments. This was the day's central fight. Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson repeatedly clarified that the votes only instructed the city attorney to prepare ballot language, with an August 7 deadline to remove anything from the ballot. Ad hoc committee chair Ysabel Jurado argued forcefully against going to the ballot, stating the evidence "did not support putting measure ULA back on the ballot at this time" and that implementation delays — not the tax — were the problem. Council Member Imelda Padilla said her own committee work showed the transfer-tax revenue was recovering and ULA was "working." Council Members Monica Rodriguez and Eunisses Hernandez also opposed ballot action, while Tim McOsker, Katy Yaroslavsky, and Bob Blumenfield advanced a "middle ground."
- The first vote (a verbal Yaroslavsky-McOsker motion asking the city attorney to report on whether ballot action could be made contingent on the Howard Jarvis "Taxpayer Protection Act" coming off the state ballot) passed 11-3, with Hernandez, Jurado, and Soto-Martinez opposed.
- Amending Motion 79B (Blumenfield-Yaroslavsky-McOsker), which would have created a ULA tax refund for nonprofits like the Jewish Home for the Aging and the Motion Picture and Television Fund that sold land to build housing/services for low-income seniors and disabled persons, failed 6-8.
- Amending Motion 79A (Yaroslavsky-McOsker-Harris-Dawson), exempting newly built multifamily and residential mixed-use sold within 10 years of construction, passed 9-5. McOsker framed it as a compromise; the housing department estimated the revenue reduction at under 2%.
- Final adoption of Item 79 as amended passed 9-5, with Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Jurado, Padilla, and Rodriguez opposed.
Item 67 (CF 26-0489) — Charter Reform package. More than twenty contested votes occurred. Key flashpoints:
The public works director consolidation (Recommendations 2–4) passed only 9-6, with Rodriguez and Padilla leading opposition. Rodriguez, a former public works commissioner, warned the change could move contract approvals "behind closed doors," undermining a 100-year-old anti-corruption structure.
The Recreation and Parks funding amendment (67H, Yaroslavsky-Rodriguez) passed 14-1, with Bob Blumenfield the lone no. The amendment phases in a doubled parks set-aside over 10 years, reaching 0.65% of assessed property value, with a floor of 0.325% even in fiscal emergencies. Blumenfield objected on principle to "ballot box budgeting," warning that walling off funds creates budget contortions; Rodriguez, Jurado, Nazarian, and Yaroslavsky defended the phase-in as fiscally responsible.
Police accountability (CRC 54, Recommendation 22) passed 10-5. The measure clarifies that the Council may set general policy for the LAPD. Hernandez and Soto-Martinez argued passionately that during the 2024 immigration raids the Board of Police Commissioners gave the Council "nothing" despite 22 motions, and that the change "doesn't even change the law" but clarifies existing authority. Council Member John Lee, public safety chair, opposed, warning against "politicizing the LAPD" and citing reforms since the Christopher Commission. Council President Harris-Dawson also voted no, citing his lived experience as a youth when the Council controlled LAPD and districts were policed unequally. Lee changed his vote to no after the tally.
Residential/noncitizen voting (CRC 23/Recommendation 36, amended by 76A) passed 10-5. Soto-Martinez's measure would permissively allow the Council to later establish, by ordinance during redistricting cycles, voting for residents regardless of citizenship status. Rodriguez and Adrin Nazarian raised feasibility concerns (the county administers elections; no system exists), and Padilla and Rodriguez warned about creating a data list usable by federal authorities. A motion by Jurado/Hut to call the question failed 5-10.
Other contested charter votes included the controller's CFO/debt-management role (referred to ordinance 11-4 rather than the ballot), the airport commissioner local-representation measure (102/67A, Padilla-Park, adopted 8-4 — expanding to three LAX-area and two Van Nuys-area community seats), the port Public Access Investment Plan and workforce-analysis amendments (12-0), and a series of personnel/civil-service items referred to the EERC, CAO, and a forthcoming ad hoc committee following union objections.
Public Comment
Public comment was dominated by an organized turnout against weakening Measure ULA. Numerous speakers identified as members of the Western States Carpenters Union, Community Power Collective, ACE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), the United to House LA coalition, LA CAN (Los Angeles Community Action Network), the Eviction Defense Network (EDN) tenant empowerment program, Inquilinos Unidos, and Catalyst California/Re-Imagine LA. Tenant advocates and EDN students repeatedly testified that ULA-funded right-to-counsel saved their homes, and warned that EDN faced laying off 66% of its staff absent advancement of the April Stay Housed LA allocation by July 1, 2026. Multiple speakers disputed the claim that ULA harms housing production, citing first-quarter 2026 permit data. The carpenters and the Mend It Don't End It coalition (including the California Community Foundation and LA County Federation of Labor) took the opposing view, supporting the ad hoc committee's surgical amendments while still urging against a ballot measure that could aid the Howard Jarvis "Taxpayer Deception Act."
A second wave of comment, including LA Forward, the Fair LA Coalition, Black Lives Matter LA, and individual advocates, urged the Council to advance charter reforms — particularly rank-choice voting, council expansion, and LAPD policy authority (CRC 54). Park advocates from the Trust for Public Land, LA Neighborhood Land Trust, Friends of Griffith Park, and student groups urged doubling the Recreation and Parks allocation and removing the 30% fiscal-emergency suspension clause. City unions — AFSCME District Council 36, the LA City Coalition of Unions, EAA, and the Librarians' Guild — uniformly asked the Council to reject the personnel charter changes, arguing the meet-and-confer process had been rushed to an improper "last, best, and final offer."
Contested Votes
Tallies and member votes are the official record (LA City Clerk CVVS). Descriptions are drawn from the meeting transcript.
Item 14 — CF 25-1433-S1 (Adopted): (CF 25-1433-S1) — Budget and Finance Committee report on an ongoing funding source for daily security services at Runyon Canyon Park from 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., instructing Recreation and Parks to absorb the costs for the remainder of the fiscal year not covered by the $125,000 Council District 4 provided in FY 2025-26, and to report with the City Administrative Officer on park facilities with similar security issues citywide.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Imelda Padilla |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 1 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Charter Reform Commission Recommendation 20, taken as a separate vote at Councilmember Nazarian's request.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (3) | Adrin Nazarian, Heather Hutt, Nithya Raman |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 2 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember Hutt's motion to refer Recommendation 28 to the Employee Relations Board, the City Administrative Officer and the ad hoc committee on charter reform rather than act on it, which the chair noted would not necessarily delay it.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (3) | Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 3 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Referral of Recommendations 29 and 30 to the Employee Relations Board, the City Administrative Officer and the ad hoc committee on charter reform.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (13) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (2) | Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 4 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember McOsker's motion, seconded by Hutt, to refer Recommendation 38 to the ad hoc committee, the Employee Relations Board and the City Administrative Officer.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Katy Yaroslavsky |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 5 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Whether to note and file the Charter Reform Commission recommendation on public banking, which includes language referencing public banking provisions as set out in state law. Noting and filing would end consideration; the alternative was for the full Council to take the item up further.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Heather Hutt |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 6 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Charter language consolidating public works authority under a single director, held on the desk from page one of the committee report and taken up after debate; the chair put it as language "moving it forward and giving the council the option to adapt to 2026 and that landscape of how we could build up our infrastructure for the city."
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (9) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (6) | Adrin Nazarian, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Monica Rodriguez, Traci Park |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 7 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Amending Motion 67H, amending Recommendation 6 as further amended by Yaroslavsky and Rodriguez, on the Recreation and Parks set-aside.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, 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, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Bob Blumenfield |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 8 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendations 7 and 8, taken together as a separate vote at Councilmember Hutt's request.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Heather Hutt |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 9 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Amending Motion 68A, changing the board's composition requirement to read "no fewer than seven" members rather than a fixed seven, and adding the ability to make further changes by ordinance.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Heather Hutt |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 10 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendation 9 as amended by Amending Motion 68A.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Heather Hutt |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 11 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendations 12 and 13, taken together as a separate vote at Council District 7's request.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Imelda Padilla |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 12 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendation 11, taken as a separate vote at the request of Council Districts 2 and 7.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (8) | Bob Blumenfield, Heather Hutt, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (7) | Adrin Nazarian, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Traci Park |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 13 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember Blumenfield's motion, seconded by Jurado, to move Recommendation 15 — the chief financial officer provision — out of the charter package and into the ad hoc committee's stack.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | Imelda Padilla |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 14 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendation 23 as amended, together with a motion seconded by Rodriguez to obtain a confidential City Attorney analysis of the city's obligations to bargain on the issue, delivered at the same time as the underlying material.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (14) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (1) | John Lee |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 15 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Amendment to designate the chief information officer as chief financial officer with debt management responsibilities by ordinance alone, rather than also enshrining the role in the charter. Blumenfield and Rodriguez argued the ordinance route was sufficient and left the Council room to properly vet what belongs in the charter, against members who wanted both routes.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (4) | Curren D. Price, John Lee, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Traci Park |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 16 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember Soto-Martinez's amendment to Recommendation 36, whose closing line provides for a review period every 10 years.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (10) | Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (5) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, John Lee, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Traci Park |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 17 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendation 53, on the revised tally taken later in the session.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (12) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (3) | Curren D. Price, John Lee, Tim Mcosker |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 18 of 22) (Failed): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember Hutt's motion to call the question on Recommendation 36, cutting off debate; the chair noted it required 10 votes and that a member on the queue had not yet spoken.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (5) | Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, John Lee, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (10) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 19 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Charter Reform Commission Recommendation 54, carried as committee Recommendation 22, clarifying that the Council may establish general policy for the Los Angeles Police Department. Councilmember Hernandez argued the amendment "doesn't give us more authority, it just clears up existing law"; Public Safety Committee chair Lee took the opposing position. LA Left Tracker Key Vote
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (10) | Curren D. Price, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Nithya Raman, Traci Park, Ysabel Jurado |
| No (5) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, John Lee, Monica Rodriguez, Tim Mcosker |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 20 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Councilmember Park's motion on Recommendation 37, taken before the competing McOsker motion to refer the matter to the ad hoc committee, the City Administrative Officer and the Employee Relations Board.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (7) | Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Traci Park |
| No (5) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Tim Mcosker |
| Absent (3) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Ysabel Jurado |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 21 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Recommendation 97, allowing port wardens to elect their status, which McOsker said had been recommended and urged by the Port of Los Angeles.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (1) | Eunisses Hernandez |
| Absent (3) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Ysabel Jurado |
Item 67 — CF 26-0489 (vote 22 of 22) (Adopted): (CF 26-0489) — Charter amendment requiring that commissioners reside within the areas surrounding Los Angeles International Airport and Van Nuys Airport, with at least two members of the Board of Airport Commissioners residing near each, and authorizing the Council to define sub-areas by ordinance and set commissioner residency distribution requirements among them.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (8) | Adrin Nazarian, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Katy Yaroslavsky, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (4) | Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, John Lee, Marqueece Harris-Dawson |
| Absent (3) | Bob Blumenfield, Curren D. Price, Ysabel Jurado |
Item 79 — CF 23-0038-S15 (vote 1 of 4) (Adopted): (CF 23-0038-S15) — Verbal motion by Councilmember Yaroslavsky directing the City Attorney to study the Jarvis contingency as it bears on amending Measure ULA.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (11) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, 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 |
| Absent (1) | Curren D. Price |
Item 79 — CF 23-0038-S15 (vote 2 of 4) (Failed): (CF 23-0038-S15) — Amending Motion 79B (Blumenfield – Yaroslavsky – McOsker), creating a Measure ULA transfer tax refund for nonprofits. LA Left Tracker Key Vote
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (6) | Bob Blumenfield, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (8) | Adrin Nazarian, Eunisses Hernandez, Heather Hutt, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Monica Rodriguez, Nithya Raman, Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (1) | Curren D. Price |
Item 79 — CF 23-0038-S15 (vote 3 of 4) (Adopted): (CF 23-0038-S15) — Amending Motion 79A (Yaroslavsky – McOsker – Harris-Dawson), exempting new multifamily and residential mixed-use properties from the Measure ULA transfer tax if sold within 10 years of construction. LA Left Tracker Key Vote
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (9) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Heather Hutt, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (5) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Monica Rodriguez, Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (1) | Curren D. Price |
Item 79 — CF 23-0038-S15 (vote 4 of 4) (Adopted): (CF 23-0038-S15) — Final adoption of the Ad Hoc Committee on Measure United to House Los Angeles report as amended by Amending Motion 79A and the Yaroslavsky verbal motion, on amending Measure ULA to remove the requirement for findings for amendments and to revise eligibility requirements for House LA Citizens Oversight Committee members.
| Vote | Members |
|---|---|
| Yes (9) | Adrin Nazarian, Bob Blumenfield, Heather Hutt, John Lee, Katy Yaroslavsky, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Nithya Raman, Tim Mcosker, Traci Park |
| No (5) | Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Imelda Padilla, Monica Rodriguez, Ysabel Jurado |
| Absent (1) | Curren D. Price |
Vote Changes & Transcript Discrepancies
- Imelda Padilla (Yes → No) on Item 14: amended during the meeting; reflected in the official tally. Asked to be registered as a no after the block vote, saying the funding "should be discretionary, not general"; the City Attorney confirmed it did not change the outcome and it was entered clerically.
- John Lee (Yes → No) on Item 67: amended during the meeting; reflected in the official tally. Said "change my vote, I vote no" immediately after the roll on the charter amendment clarifying the Council may set general LAPD policy, moving the result from 11 ayes and 4 noes to 10 and 5.
- Traci Park (Yes → No) on Item 67: amended during the meeting; reflected in the official tally. Asked to be recorded as a no on Recommendation 23 as amended after the Council had moved on; the chair confirmed it did not change the outcome and restated the tally as 12 ayes and 3 noes.