LAPD camera pilot survives veto try; council passes ban on new oil drilling

An ordinance, on first consideration, amending Los Angeles Municipal Code Sections 41.20 and 41.20.1 to create a no-fee permit for small 'micro-shoot' filming in public spaces. The item also tells the Board of Public Works, working with the Fire, Police, Transportation and Recreation and Parks departments and FilmLA, to report within 60 days on a plan to change and run the program, modeled on New York City's 'Letter in Lieu' permit system (agenda). It was called special for comments, the comments were waived, and the council adopted it unanimously. 02:40:11

• Adopt the Ad Hoc Committee on Film, Entertainment, and Creative Industry report and present and adopt the Micro-Shoot Permit ordinance (first consideration). Result: passed, 15-0. 02:40:29

Directs LADOT to report within 90 days on reconfiguring the NoHo DASH line as 'NoHo2BUR Connect', a direct transit link between North Hollywood Station and Hollywood Burbank Airport that would reuse the line's existing vehicles and service hours. The report is to cover routes, frequency, weekend service, costs, connections, and agreements with the City of Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority. It also asks Metro to coordinate, and asks LADOT for a timeline and the funding needed to run the service by the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games (agenda). Adopted unanimously. 02:40:41

• Adopt the Transportation Committee report directing LADOT to report on the NoHo2BUR Connect reconfiguration. Result: passed, 15-0. 02:43:59

• A speaker said the airport opened its new terminal on October 13 (the transcript renders the cost and gate count as $1.3 billion and 14 gates) 02:40:55
• A speaker said the airport served a record number of passengers in 2024, about 6.55 million 02:40:55
• A speaker said the only transit link now is a weekday-only, one-way Burbank bus loop 02:40:55
• A speaker said ridership more than doubled within six months on a free shuttle that LAWA funded in 2011, before that service ended 02:41:57
• A speaker said the proposal would reuse existing DASH vehicles and service hours, at the standard 50-cent DASH fare 02:41:57
• A speaker argued the timing matters with the Olympic and Paralympic Games less than two years away 02:43:02

Bans parking, at all hours, of vehicles over 22 feet long or over 84 inches tall on both sides of five street segments in Council District 15: Belle Porte Avenue, Normandie Avenue, Vermont Avenue, Frampton Avenue, and 240th Street. LADOT is told to post signs (agenda). A member called this item, along with items 12 and 15, special for a separate vote, and they passed 12-3. 02:44:01

• Adopt the Transportation Committee report and resolution for oversized vehicle restrictions in CD 15 (voted together with items 12 and 15). Result: passed, 12-3. No: Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District), Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District). 02:44:01

• A speaker asked to pull items 11, 12 and 15 for a separate vote 00:31:17

Bans parking of vehicles over 22 feet long or over 84 inches tall from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. on both sides of ten street segments in Council District 2, including parts of Vantage, Vineland, Ethel, Rhodes, Camellia, Craner and Cleon avenues and Gilmore and Califa streets. LADOT is to post 'tow away, no parking' signs (agenda). Voted together with items 11 and 15. 02:44:01

• Adopt the Transportation Committee report and resolution for overnight oversized vehicle restrictions in CD 2 (voted together with items 11 and 15). Result: passed, 12-3. No: Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District), Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District). 02:44:01

Bans parking of vehicles over 22 feet long or over 84 inches tall from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. on both sides of nine street segments in Council District 2, including parts of Strathern Street, Hortense Avenue, Ethel Avenue, Riverside Avenue, Kittridge, Archwood Street, Vose Street, Sherman Way and Valerio Street (agenda). Voted together with items 11 and 12. 02:44:01

• Adopt the Transportation Committee report and resolution for overnight oversized vehicle restrictions in CD 2 (voted together with items 11 and 12). Result: passed, 12-3. No: Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District), Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District). 02:44:01

A resolution designating six locations in Council District 11 for enforcement of Municipal Code Section 41.18, which bars sitting, lying, sleeping or storing property in the public right-of-way: Vista del Mar Park, the Dockweiler Beach sand dunes along Vista del Mar, Asilomar View Park, Temescal Canyon Park, and two pedestrian tunnels under Pacific Coast Highway. City departments are to post notices and begin enforcement once any required posting period ends (agenda). Several public speakers opposed it as criminalizing homelessness. It passed 11-4. 02:44:23

• Adopt the resolution designating the CD 11 locations for 41.18 enforcement. Result: passed, 11-4. No: Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District), Nithya Raman (Councilmember, Fourth District), Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District). 02:44:44

• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) asked to pull item 17 for a separate vote 00:30:09

Rescinds $20,980 in CRA/LA excess bond proceeds approved for the San Pedro Business Facade Improvement Project and adds $21,617 to the San Pedro Gateway Sign Project, bringing that project to $41,617 (agenda). The clerk read an amending motion, 18A, with the item. The packet does not give what the amendment changed. Adopted as amended, 15-0. 02:44:48

• Adopt item 18 as amended by Amending Motion 18A, which the clerk read as Bob Blumenfield (Councilmember, Third District; President Pro Tempore) for Tim McOsker (Councilmember, Fifteenth District)–Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council). Result: passed, 15-0. 02:44:48

• The city clerk reported a request to hold item 18 on the desk before the first group vote 00:30:50

On September 22, 2026, the Board of Police Commissioners approved a memorandum of understanding between the city and Axon Enterprise, Inc. for the 'Lightpost Test Pilot Program'. The Public Safety Committee recommended that the council veto that approval under Charter Section 245, and October 27 was the last day for council action (agenda). The clerk said 10 ayes were needed to approve the veto. In debate, members discussed the pilot as automated license plate reader (ALPR) technology. One member said it is a three-month pilot that would allow about 10 cameras in that member's district. The veto got 9 votes, twice, short of the 10 required, so the council did not overturn the board's approval. Public comment ran for more than two hours and was dominated by opposition to the contract, citing immigration enforcement, privacy and misuse of the data. 02:45:01

• Approve the Public Safety Committee recommendation to veto, under Charter Section 245, the Board of Police Commissioners' September 22, 2026 approval of the Axon MOU (10 ayes required). Result: failed, 9-6. No: Bob Blumenfield (Councilmember, Third District; President Pro Tempore), Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council), John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore), Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District), Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District), Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District). 03:43:20
• Reconsider the vote on item 33, moved by Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council), presiding, as one of the six on the prevailing side, seconded by Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) and Heather Hutt (Councilmember, Tenth District); the Journal records the motion as Harris-Dawson–Hutt. Result: passed, 13-2. No: John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore), Imelda Padilla (Councilmember, Sixth District). 03:44:45
• Approve the veto of the Board of Police Commissioners' approval of the Axon MOU, on reconsideration (10 ayes required). Result: failed, 9-6. No: Bob Blumenfield (Councilmember, Third District; President Pro Tempore), Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council), John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore), Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District), Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District), Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District). 03:45:07

• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) asked to pull item 33 for comments and a separate vote 00:30:17
• A councilmember cited a news analysis finding federal homeland security agencies ran over a million searches in Washington state despite its law against immigration-related searches 02:46:29
• A councilmember said an inspector general audit of a two-month period found the cameras captured over 200 million scans 02:47:40
• A councilmember said LAPD has never done a comprehensive audit of officer use, and that more than 4,000 officers and civilians can search the network 02:49:59
• A councilmember named three conditions to meet before adopting the pilot: an independent third-party audit, board oversight of any external data sharing, and stricter role-based limits on who has access 02:51:02
• A councilmember said the mayor told them she supports these protections and is working to put them in place 02:51:02
• A councilmember urged a veto that would send the contract back to the Board of Police Commissioners 02:52:09
• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) said the department had spent the past two weeks responding to council members' concerns 02:53:06
• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) argued the technology helps investigators develop leads and solve cases 02:54:08
• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) made a formal request that the Board of Police Commissioners require an independent third-party audit of the pilot 02:55:08
• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) also asked for an enforceable role-based formula for which officers can access the data, with all searches logged and reviewed 02:55:08
• John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) asked that the board check safeguards against the audit findings before any expansion, and asked for a no vote 02:56:12
• A speaker argued the vote was an expansion without the protections being discussed 02:56:48
• A speaker warned that authoritarian governments can use surveillance systems that local governments build 02:57:54
• A speaker said the federal government can reach the data whether or not the city shares it 02:57:54
• A speaker said over 1,200 cameras have operated for five years with a dozen police departments having access 03:00:00
• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) said residents in their district are uncertain how the new technology will work 03:01:23
• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) said they were not comfortable authorizing what they called unchecked AI on city infrastructure, and backed the committee recommendation 03:02:24
• A councilmember said cameras in CD 11 helped intercept a homicide suspect and locate a missing child 03:03:04
• A councilmember said LAPD does not share the data with DHS or ICE or use it for immigration enforcement 03:04:06
• A councilmember said the cameras use no AI or facial recognition and only photograph license plates and the rear of cars 03:05:07
• A speaker said Charter Section 245 lets the council only veto or not veto, not add conditions 03:06:10
• A speaker said they have backed ALPRs before and might back this one later, but not today 03:06:10
• A speaker argued that approving now would give up the leverage to make sure the contract comes back improved 03:07:10
• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) said the council had rejected efforts in charter reform to strengthen its oversight of LAPD 03:08:34
• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) described the veto as the council's only point of leverage 03:08:34
• A speaker acknowledged it is a pilot in one region but said more work is needed first 03:12:33
• A speaker faulted the council for not applying the same scrutiny to similar technology used by other departments 03:14:23
• A speaker asked how quickly the contract could come back with the added protections 03:17:27
• A speaker said at that point that they were prepared to support the veto 03:18:37
• The presiding officer said cameras in their district have led to at least 120 rescues of minors involved in trafficking 03:20:29
• The presiding officer said the federal government can commandeer city equipment or put up its own 03:21:30
• The presiding officer backed the protections requested by John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) and called for them to be adopted by the police commission or by mayoral executive directive, whichever is faster 03:21:30
• A speaker said they would support the veto on condition that the added protections are put into the contract quickly 03:22:56
• A speaker said the dispute had brought Flock back to the table to negotiate 03:22:56
• A speaker argued the three-month pilot is not the point of leverage, and that the leverage comes at the decision on expansion 03:24:38
• A speaker said the council voted more than a year ago to approve their discretionary money for cameras, because neighboring districts already have them 03:25:40
• A speaker said the money covered over 60 cameras but the pilot would allow only about 10 03:28:54
• A speaker argued the federal government can surveil residents regardless of what the city does 03:30:10
• A speaker drew on family experience of fleeing Iran to argue that police can protect minority communities 03:31:11
• A speaker said they would vote against the veto, even if in the minority 03:33:14
• The city clerk explained that an aye vote approves the veto, a no vote disapproves it, and 10 ayes are required 03:34:40
• A speaker said they would now support the member pushing the pilot, while expecting equal scrutiny of other camera programs 03:35:13
• A speaker said the Transportation Committee spent months building data protections for the Department of Transportation's speed cameras 03:36:04
• A speaker said LAPD needs a subpoena to get Department of Transportation camera data 03:38:12
• A councilmember said their office had reviewed and supported the Department of Transportation's camera programs 03:39:36
• A councilmember argued that letting the pilot proceed is the real inconsistency, and asked for a yes vote 03:40:37
• A speaker dismissed the consistency argument, noted that buses also take many pictures, and called the question 03:41:30
• A councilmember said the LADOT camera contract has no search-justification requirement and no misuse-discipline provisions 03:41:52
• A speaker asked who had moved reconsideration and which side had prevailed, noting reconsideration must come from the prevailing side 03:43:50
• The city clerk said only a member of the six-vote prevailing side could move to reconsider 03:44:15

• In-person and phone public comment ran about two hours (roughly 00:33 to 02:39). The chair limited in-person comment to the people already in line after nearly an hour.
• About 40 speakers, in person and by phone, urged the council to veto the Police Commission's approval of the Axon contract (item 33) or to end license plate reader programs altogether. The most common reasons were fear that the data could reach ICE and undercut the city's sanctuary policy, reports of officers misusing plate-reader data to stalk people, a view that the inspector general's two-month audit was inadequate and showed little crime-solving benefit, the number of LAPD personnel with access (several cited about 4,000), Fourth Amendment concerns, cost, and Axon's federal contracts and work abroad. Speakers included representatives of immigrant-rights, faith, labor, civil-rights, Muslim advocacy and police-surveillance watchdog groups, students, and Black Lives Matter chapters.
• One speaker on item 33 said police should have the technology tools they need to solve crimes.
• One phone caller opposed the cameras if ICE could use them, but supported the 41.18 enforcement zones in item 17.
• About seven speakers opposed item 17, the 41.18 anti-camping zones in CD 11, saying it criminalizes homelessness. Some urged repeal of 41.18 zones in other districts.
• About four speakers from the carpenters union raised wage theft, unsafe conditions and alleged child labor on housing projects fast-tracked under the mayor's Executive Directive 1, and asked for payroll audits and labor standards. Two of them tied this to the $130 million Flats on Sunset bond in item 22.
• About five speakers asked the council to pass a resolution opposing the U.S. blockade of Cuba, a non-agenda topic.
• A few speakers criticized item 19 (World Cup banners), item 21 (the pet food pantry, citing conditions in city animal shelters) and item 24 (Super Bowl services contracts).
• One speaker from the cannabis industry asked the council to set a deadline for a CAO report on lowering cannabis taxes, which the speaker said was requested 13 months ago.
• Several speakers used profanity and personal insults toward members. A few made unverified allegations of police misconduct or official corruption, or raised personal grievances. City staff warned speakers repeatedly about decorum, staying on topic and the sign rules. During one comment, the chair ordered a speaker removed after a dispute over the speaker's child standing on the podium. The speaker was then allowed to finish under a final warning.

• Item 33: With the veto failing, the Board of Police Commissioners' approval of the Axon pilot was not overturned. John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) formally asked the board to require an independent third-party audit of the pilot, an enforceable role-based access formula, logging and independent review of searches, and board review of the audit before any expansion or permanent implementation. The presiding officer called for the protections to be put in place through the police commission or by mayoral executive directive. Asked by Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) how quickly the added protections could be negotiated, an official the recording doesn't name said they would have to get back to the council, hopefully by the end of the year. A member said the pilot runs three months, after which the council would face the decision on expansion.
• Item 1: CAO report on a TAY homelessness strategy due within 90 days (agenda).
• Item 2: Bureau of Street Services report on tree-well planting and maintenance due in 30 days (agenda).
• Item 4: Departments to report within 120 days on the $1-per-day film location policy (agenda).
• Item 5: Board of Public Works to report within 60 days on implementing the Micro-Shoot Permit Program (agenda).
• Item 10: LADOT report on the NoHo2BUR Connect reconfiguration due within 90 days, including a timeline for service by the 2028 Games (agenda).
• Item 14: LADOT to report back in 90 days with updated signal guidelines (agenda).
• Item 24: CAO and Chief Legislative Analyst to negotiate Super Bowl Experience service contracts (agenda).

A Homelessness and Health Committee report (CF 23-1022-S18) to approve the city's Updated Bed Plan for the Alliance Settlement Agreement and instruct the City Administrative Officer to report in sixty days on the cost to maintain all housing and shelter solutions in the plan, and to recommend how to restructure the city's housing and shelter portfolio for June 30, 2027 through June 30, 2029, using project outcome and utilization data. The CAO reported no immediate General Fund impact (agenda). It was approved in a block vote with Items 2 through 6 without discussion. 00:49:57

• Adopt Items 1 through 6 (public hearings held) in one block vote. Result: passed. 00:49:57

A Planning and Land Use Management Committee report on a motion by Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) and Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District) (CF 26-0756). It instructs City Planning, with other departments, the City Attorney and the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, to report within 60 days on SB 969, a 2024 state law that lets local governments set Entertainment Zones where people can buy alcohol from licensed businesses and drink it outdoors in the public right of way, and to recommend one or more such zones in Downtown Los Angeles. It also calls for public hearings that include Council District 14 stakeholders, small businesses, cultural groups, Business Improvement Districts and Neighborhood Councils (agenda). It first passed in the block vote on Items 1 through 6; Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District), out of the room for that vote, had it reconsidered and it was adopted again as amended. The amendment's text was not read into the record. 00:49:57

• Adopt Items 1 through 6 in one block vote. Result: passed. 00:49:57
• Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District) moved to reconsider Item 6. Result: passed, 14 ayes. 01:35:41
• Adopt Item 6 as amended (amendment offered by Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District); text not read aloud). Result: passed, 14 ayes. 01:36:23

• A speaker said they were out of the room when Item 6 was voted on and asked to reconsider it so an amendment could be offered 01:35:33
• The city clerk relayed that the city attorney had advised the council could take up Item 6 as amended right away rather than after public comment 01:35:52

During presentations, John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore) introduced a visiting delegation of local officials from Namgu District in Gwangju, South Korea, with an ensemble of six young musicians with developmental disabilities who were to perform in the City Hall rotunda. The delegation's leader spoke through an interpreter about the ensemble's upcoming performance at United Nations headquarters and an exhibition of Korean contemporary art opening at the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Certificates were presented. 00:50:09

• A councilmember introduced the delegation's leader as serving a third consecutive term as head of Namgu District in Gwangju 00:50:39
• A speaker said, through interpretation, that the ensemble is scheduled to perform at United Nations headquarters in New York on November 2 00:54:47
• The presiding councilmember said the visiting leader heads a national organization of Korean mayors and recalled meeting him on a 2022 visit 00:59:46

The presiding member announced that a national labor and civil rights leader of the farmworker movement had died within the past twenty-four hours. A video of her speaking was played, and Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) led a remembrance followed by tributes from a dozen members. Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) said City Hall would be lit in her honor, with the cost shared by her office and Karen Bass (Mayor), and the council held a moment of silence. 01:00:48

• The presiding councilmember announced the death of a labor and civil rights leader described as a national and local hero 01:00:48
• Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) described her as having faced police violence, racism and institutional hostility without slowing down 01:06:13
• Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) recalled first meeting her while campaigning to elect the city's first Latino mayor 01:07:14
• A councilmember noted that an elementary school and an apartment development in Council District 9 bear her name 01:11:45
• A councilmember recalled that the farmworkers were the first union to endorse them in their first race for office 01:13:16
• A councilmember recalled her advising on how to press a poultry company over social distancing for workers during COVID 01:14:49
• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) said she trained as an organizer at the Community Service Organization building in Boyle Heights before helping form the United Farm Workers 01:16:40
• Tim McOsker (Councilmember, Fifteenth District) recalled farmworkers organizing food caravans for harbor-area families during a 1971 waterfront strike 01:19:16
• A councilmember said her life showed public servants must listen to overlooked people and act on what they hear 01:20:40
• A councilmember said she kept showing up to speak out long after having already changed history 01:21:38
• A speaker recalled working with her on a series of labor bills in the mid-2010s 01:22:59
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) said they learned of her death at a press conference with residents who had fought fourteen years to end neighborhood oil drilling 01:24:58
• A speaker described her as an organizer, union leader, feminist and democratic socialist 01:26:39
• A speaker said she was one of the few who endorsed them when they challenged an incumbent 01:30:34
• The presiding councilmember recalled the grape boycott slogan being so common in South Central during childhood that they did not know the English word for grapes 01:31:34
• Monica Rodriguez (Councilmember, Seventh District) announced City Hall would be lit in her honor, with the cost shared with the mayor's office, and asked for a moment of silence 01:33:54

Seventeen litigation items (CF numbers on agenda) considered by the Budget and Finance Committee on October 20. The clerk read the recommendations: settle Items 16 through 31 for up to these amounts (transcript only; the agenda lists no amounts): Item 16, a dispute with Angels Landing Partners over an exclusive negotiating agreement for two acres downtown, $7,863,000; Item 17, sidewalk trip and fall, $115,000; Item 18, trip and fall in San Pedro, $165,000; Item 19, trip and fall on Ivar Street, $190,000; Item 20, trip and fall in North Hills, $200,000; Item 21, sidewalk trip and fall on Sunset Boulevard, $225,000; Item 22, e-scooter fall at 4th Street near Figueroa Street, $362,500; Item 23, traffic collision, $127,500; Item 24, accident on the 134 Freeway, $490,000; Item 25, collision on the 110 Freeway, $700,000; Item 26, injury alleged at a June 14, 2025 ICE protest downtown, $550,000; Item 27, collision on the 91 Freeway, $4,100,000; Item 28, auto-versus-motorcycle crash in Granada Hills, $17,500,000; Item 29, sidewalk trip and fall on Melrose Avenue, $1,000,000; Item 30, vehicle-versus-pedestrian incident, $9,000,000; Item 31, police tort litigation against LAPD, $10,000,000. Item 32, a federal lawsuit by Nasco Petroleum LLC challenging the city's earlier ordinance banning new oil and gas extraction (Ordinance No. 187,709), carried a recommendation to reject the settlement. All were adopted in one vote. 02:44:36

• Adopt the Budget and Finance Committee recommendations on Items 16 through 32 (settle Items 16-31 at the amounts read; reject settlement in Item 32). Result: passed. 02:47:47

• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) said the Budget and Finance Committee considered Items 16 through 32 on October 20 and recommended approval 00:49:33
• The city clerk read the recommendation to pay up to $7,863,000 in the Angels Landing Partners cases 02:44:46
• The city clerk read the recommendation to pay up to $550,000 in the case arising from the ICE protest 02:45:47
• The city clerk read the recommendation to pay up to $17,500,000 in the Item 28 motorcycle-crash case 02:46:51
• The city clerk read the recommendation to pay up to $10,000,000 in the Item 31 police tort case 02:46:51
• The city clerk corrected the record later in the meeting to say Item 32 is the Nasco Petroleum case and the recommendation to reject the settlement stands 03:31:44

A Public Safety Committee report (CF 26-1093) to approve a restructured set of fee categories under the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act in the Fire Department's Certified Unified Program Agency fee schedule, and to ask the City Attorney to draft an ordinance amending the Municipal Code to put it in place. The Board of Fire Commissioners reports the change is revenue-neutral (agenda). It was held on the desk at the start of the meeting and later adopted as amended by an amending motion (7A) from Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council) and John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore), whose content was not read aloud. 02:47:56

• Adopt Item 7 as amended by amending motion 7A (Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council) – John Lee (Councilmember, Twelfth District; Assistant President Pro Tempore)). Result: passed, 14 ayes. 02:48:07

• The city clerk reported a request to hold Item 7 on the desk 00:49:51

Reports from the City Administrative Officer, Community Investment Department and Bureau of Sanitation on the feasibility of a Mitigation Response Fund for impacts of the June 17, 2026 fire at the Lineage Logistics cold storage facility in Boyle Heights (CF 26-0906-S12, Council District 14). The Ad Hoc Committee for Boyle Heights Fire Recovery report was circulated in council; the agenda listed no recommendations and no financial analysis. Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) called it special, describing it as advancing funding for affected families and businesses; the amount was not stated aloud. Residents in public comment described smoke, odors, rats and flies, illness, lost work and higher electric bills from running air filters. 02:48:20

• Adopt Item 15 (Ad Hoc Committee for Boyle Heights Fire Recovery report). Result: passed, 14 ayes. 02:51:59

• A councilmember said Boyle Heights families and businesses are still bearing the health and economic consequences of the June 17 warehouse fire 02:48:28
• A councilmember said the city's task now is to turn the funding into help people can actually access and to keep pressing for accountability 02:49:36
• A councilmember said from the Palisades experience that there is no ready pot of money for disaster victims and such disasters can happen anywhere 02:51:03

A Transportation and Budget and Finance Committees report (CF 26-1392), subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval, that moves money among transportation-related construction projects: transfers of $15,744,041 between departments and funds and $2,826,519 within departments, an appropriation of $6,614,198, rescinding a $1,500,000 appropriation for the Sylmar Channel project, reauthorizing up to $4,000,000 in MICLA borrowing for electric vehicle charger infrastructure and $59,686,000 in MICLA front-funding for the Glendale-Hyperion Complex of Bridges, and creating a new fund for that bridge project. The CAO puts the transactions at $90.33 million in total (agenda). Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District) recused herself, citing an economic interest in an EV-charging company. 02:52:03

• Adopt Items 9 and 10. Result: passed, 13 ayes. Recused: Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District). 02:52:32

• A councilmember recused from Items 9 and 10 out of caution over a possible conflict from an economic interest in an EV charging company 02:52:13

A Transportation and Budget and Finance Committees report and resolution (CF 17-0739-S4, Council District 7), subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval, authorizing LADOT to apply for and accept $922,191 (agenda) from the Caltrans State of Good Repair program to buy and install electrical infrastructure for bus charging at the city-owned Sylmar Bus Maintenance Yard, 12776 Foothill Boulevard. No local match is required (agenda). Voted together with Item 9; Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District) recused. 02:52:03

• Adopt Items 9 and 10. Result: passed, 13 ayes. Recused: Traci Park (Councilmember, Eleventh District). 02:52:32

At a special meeting, the council took up the ordinance (CF 17-0447-S2) amending the zoning code to prohibit new oil and gas extraction and make existing extraction a nonconforming use in all zones, along with a Mitigated Negative Declaration, a substitute noise mitigation measure, revised land use and environmental findings, and credibility findings dated October 23, 2026, per the October 27 PLUM recommendations (special agenda). The city's earlier ordinance on the same subject is the target of a federal lawsuit by Nasco Petroleum (closed-session Item 32, where the council voted to reject a settlement). Speakers described health harms near drill sites; several urged the council to also act against specific sites and shorten what they called a twenty-year phase-out. The ordinance was adopted with 13 ayes and sent forthwith to Karen Bass (Mayor). 02:53:17

▶ Hear it Los Angeles votes to phase out oil drilling citywide · 0:28

• Adopt special agenda Items 1 and 2 (PLUM recommendations, including the oil and gas ordinance). Result: passed, 13 ayes. 03:30:50
• Send the item forthwith to Karen Bass (Mayor), as requested by Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District). Result: passed, without objection. 03:30:50

• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) said land use decisions have long let polluting uses sit next to homes, schools and parks in working-class communities of color 03:22:53
• A councilmember said Council District 11 hosts much of the city's fossil fuel infrastructure, including refineries 03:24:34
• A councilmember said the city has already committed to a 100% clean energy platform by 2035, so stopping new drilling and phasing out existing operations makes sense 03:25:35
• Tim McOsker (Councilmember, Fifteenth District) thanked Wilmington residents and the coalition for their perseverance and urged a yes vote 03:26:27
• A speaker warned that further fights and attempts to undo the work are still ahead and urged supporters to stay vigilant 03:26:56
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) said the City Attorney completed a review of the ordinance as to form and legality since the council last heard it 03:28:04
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) said the city expects to be sued and the strengthened environmental record shows the work was done 03:28:04
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) pointed to the credibility findings in Appendix E as rebutting industry challenges line by line 03:29:07
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) noted Culver City passed its own phase-out six years earlier and asked that the ordinance go forthwith 03:30:09

An ordinance (CF 13-0078-S2, Council District 1) amending the Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan to require conditional use permits for warehousing, distribution and storage uses over 15,000 square feet, with findings based on an EIR (special agenda). It drew no council discussion and was adopted in the same 13-aye vote as the oil ordinance; at Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District)'s request, all special-meeting items were sent forthwith. 02:53:17

• Adopt special agenda Items 1 and 2. Result: passed, 13 ayes. 03:31:18
• Send all special-meeting items forthwith, at Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District)'s request. Result: passed. 03:31:40

• A speaker asked to confirm that Item 2 also went forthwith 03:31:36

Motions for posting and referral were posted and referred. Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) adjourned in memory of a philanthropist who died August 21, 2026, and Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District) adjourned in memory of a journalist and educator who founded The Armenian Observer. 03:32:16

• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) honored a philanthropist who spent more than six decades building Los Angeles community institutions such as the Jewish Federation and City of Hope 03:32:43
• A speaker honored a journalist who founded an English-language Armenian American weekly in 1969 and later taught at Glendale Community College 03:34:42

• The chair said more than 80 people were in the in-person queue and limited regular-meeting public comment to forty-five minutes; not everyone got to speak.
• About a dozen speakers (roughly nine in person and three by phone), many from Boyle Heights and East LA community groups, supported the Item 15 mitigation fund for the Lineage fire, describing smoke, odors, rats and flies, illnesses, missed work, unpaid rent and higher electric bills from running air filters and air conditioning; one group said it had handed out 1,500 air purifiers and helped 334 families, one asked for door-to-door outreach instead of only an online portal, and one asked that eligibility not be limited to Boyle Heights or a one-mile radius.
• On the oil drilling ordinance, about 16 speakers in person (including three during the regular meeting's general comment) urged a yes vote, citing asthma, cancer, miscarriages and other health harms near drill sites; several asked the council to also revoke permits for the Warren E&P site in Wilmington and the Murphy drill site in South LA, shorten what they described as a twenty-year phase-out, and make operators pay for plugging and cleanup. Groups represented included STAND LA, NRDC, Food and Water Watch, the Center for Biological Diversity, Black Women for Wellness and two churches.
• A few speakers opposed the oil ordinance or spoke off-topic about it, mostly citing gas prices; one phone caller called it a political move.
• Two union carpenters' representatives asked for stronger labor standards and payroll audits on housing projects fast-tracked under the mayor's Executive Directive 1, citing wage theft.
• Two commenters criticized the closed-session settlements, saying trip-and-fall payouts reflect unrepaired sidewalks and that police spending should be cut; one called for the police chief's removal.
• Other general comments included criticism of the mayor and LAPD over immigration enforcement and Gaza, a request for meetings with council members about a personal matter, a call to investigate street-closure permits for Scientology events, election-related remarks, and complaints that the council limits public comment.
• Several speakers, in person and by phone, used profanity, slurs and personal attacks; the chair warned one speaker under council rule 7 that further use of a slur would mean expulsion, and staff apologized to the audience and cited the Brown Act's requirement to let them speak.

• Item 1: the City Administrative Officer is to report in 60 days on the cost to maintain all housing and shelter solutions in the Alliance Bed Plan, and recommend how to restructure the portfolio for June 30, 2027 to June 30, 2029 (agenda).
• Item 4: City Planning is to draft the condominium/ADU condominium streamlining ordinance within 30 days (agenda).
• Item 6: City Planning is to report within 60 days on SB 969 Entertainment Zones and recommend downtown zones, after public hearings with Council District 14 stakeholders (agenda; adopted as amended, amendment text not read).
• Item 7: the City Attorney is to prepare an ordinance implementing the revised petroleum storage fee categories (agenda; adopted as amended by motion 7A).
• Item 8: Street Services and Sanitation are to report quarterly on Clean Corridors and report on options for allocating service by equal street mileage per district versus need; positions to be filled by February 1, 2027 (agenda).
• Items 8 through 13 and both special-meeting items are subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval; the oil ordinance and the Cornfield Arroyo Seco plan amendment were sent forthwith.
• The council rejected a settlement in the Nasco Petroleum lawsuit over the earlier oil ordinance (Item 32); Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) said the city expects to be sued over the new ordinance as well.
• The visiting Korean ensemble is scheduled to perform at United Nations headquarters in New York on November 2.

Before business began, Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District) introduced children from a Mount Washington preschool and child care center who paraded through the chamber in Halloween costumes and trick-or-treated at council offices. No action was taken. 00:40:10

• A councilmember introduced children from a Mount Washington preschool visiting to show off costumes and trick-or-treat at council offices 00:40:10
• Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District) said children usually come from a different center and that this year the office wanted to widen the opportunity 00:51:53

A Planning and Land Use Management Committee report recommending the council note and file a motion by Bob Blumenfield (Councilmember, Third District; President Pro Tempore) and Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District), seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council), that asked for a report with recommendations on a later ordinance setting up an Accelerated Implementation Framework for higher and moderate opportunity sites in Transit Oriented Development zones. Noting and filing would close out the motion. The agenda lists the Westside and Palms neighborhood councils against and the North Westwood Neighborhood Council in favor. The council did not vote on it; it was continued. 00:43:21

• Request by Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) to continue item 3 to Tuesday, November 17. Result: continued. 00:43:28

• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) asked that items 3 and 4 be continued to Tuesday, November 17 00:43:21

A Planning and Land Use Management Committee report recommending the council note and file a motion led by Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) and Bob Blumenfield (Councilmember, Third District; President Pro Tempore) on developing a package of technical amendments to streamline development projects under state law SB 79. The agenda lists the Westside and Westwood neighborhood councils against and the North Westwood Neighborhood Council in favor. It was continued along with item 3. 00:43:21

• Request by Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) to continue item 4 to Tuesday, November 17. Result: continued. 00:43:28

• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) asked that items 3 and 4 be continued to Tuesday, November 17 00:43:21

A Bureau of Engineering communication on naming a private driveway on Sunset Boulevard between Carolwood Drive and Ladera Drive, in Council District 5, as Carolwood Place. The clerk said it had been noticed for November 6 and was put on this agenda by mistake, so it was continued. 00:42:35

• Continue item 5 to November 6. Result: continued. 00:43:28

• The city clerk said the item had to be continued to November 6 because it was noticed for that day and added to this agenda in error 00:42:35

A Public Works Committee report, from a motion by Nithya Raman (Councilmember, Fourth District) seconded by Hugo Soto-Martínez (Councilmember, Thirteenth District), to designate the intersection of Hyperion Avenue and Udell Court in Council District 4 as Del Campo Square and have the Department of Transportation put up permanent ceremonial signs there. 00:43:35

• Adopt items 1 and 2 in one roll call vote. Result: passed. 00:43:41

An Energy and Environment Committee report recommending the council note and file the Harbor Department's report dated June 12, 2026 on its 2025 progress toward zero waste city facilities and events. Noting and filing receives the report without further action. 00:43:35

• Adopt items 1 and 2 in one roll call vote. Result: passed. 00:43:41

Heather Hutt (Councilmember, Tenth District) honored a breast cancer surgeon who could not attend and a five-year breast cancer survivor who has hosted Let's Beat Breast Cancer rallies, and presented a certificate to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. She also presented a resolution recognizing October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which she said all councilmembers and Karen Bass (Mayor) had signed. No vote was taken. 00:52:16

• A councilmember said one honoree, a breast cancer surgeon, could not attend because she was in surgery 00:54:20
• A guest presenter described being diagnosed after a routine mammogram with a form of breast cancer that does not show up as a lump 00:58:55
• A guest presenter said she joined the campaign's advisory board to serve her community, noting Black women have a higher breast cancer mortality rate than white women 01:00:01
• A councilmember shared that she lost a great aunt and a close family friend to breast cancer and stressed early detection 01:06:12
• Ysabel Jurado (Councilmember, Fourteenth District) thanked the presenter for raising women's health issues and urged parents not to put their own health last 01:07:38
• A councilmember said his mother has been in remission from breast cancer for 31 years because it was caught early 01:09:05
• A councilmember presented a resolution recognizing October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, saying it was signed by all councilmembers and the mayor 01:11:49

Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District) honored a retiring union leader for nearly five decades with IATSE Local 80, the film and television crew union. Members spoke about keeping film production and union jobs in Los Angeles while the industry has shrunk locally. No vote was taken. 01:13:20

• Adrin Nazarian (Councilmember, Second District) said the honoree began working on film and television productions with IATSE Local 80 in 1977 and later rose into union leadership 01:14:34
• A speaker said film work became mobile and credited council advocacy with bringing attention back to keeping the industry in Los Angeles 01:17:22
• A speaker accepted the honor on behalf of the union's members across motion picture, television, broadcast, and live events 01:18:24
• A councilmember said the council must make sure its policies do not work against efforts to protect filming in the city 01:20:36
• A councilmember said good union jobs in the entertainment industry exist because people like the honoree do the work 01:22:18
• A councilmember said she had worked alongside the honoree as the local entertainment economy shrank 01:24:54
• A councilmember recalled that he and the honoree started out on opposite sides of a campaign before he came to rely on his advice 01:33:45

Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council) recognized Stones Throw Records, an independent record label based on Figueroa in Highland Park in Council District 1, on its 30th anniversary. Artists linked to the label and its founder spoke. No vote was taken. 01:35:50

• A councilmember recognized the independent label on its thirtieth anniversary 01:36:25
• A councilmember noted the label remains independent and based in Highland Park in the 1st Council District 01:37:33
• A guest presenter said he started the label in part to release the music of his musical partner, who died in 1993 01:55:30
• A councilmember praised thirty years of independence in an industry she said often breaks artists 01:59:38
• Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District) said she grew up in Highland Park and now represents the area 02:06:12

Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) honored the hip hop group The Dog Pound, saying its album came out on October 31, 1995. He announced a proclamation, which he said all councilmembers and Karen Bass (Mayor) had signed, declaring October 31 Dog Pound Day in Los Angeles. He also said the group had pledged to work with the Coalition for Responsible Community Development on youth mentorship and community events. No vote was taken. 02:09:42

• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) said The Dog Pound released its album on October 31, 1995 02:12:18
• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) said the artists pledged, with the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, to support youth mentorship and community revitalization 02:14:24
• A speaker said the group was the first artist to get a copyright reversion that returns ownership of their music 02:16:31
• A speaker said he wants to create a free music academy for kids in Los Angeles 02:16:31
• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) announced a proclamation declaring October 31 Dog Pound Day in the city 02:26:07

Accepts a $6,000,000 (agenda) Proposition 64 Cohort 4 grant from the California Board of State and Community Corrections for an Angeles National Forest hazardous fuel reduction, habitat restoration, and reforestation project, running July 1, 2026 through December 31, 2031 (agenda). The agenda authorizes contracts with TreePeople up to $1,607,068, North East Trees up to $2,204,816, and a sole-source contract with the RAND Corporation up to $300,000 for data evaluation (agenda). The fiscal statement says the grant needs no match, partly covers salaries of two Mayor's Office positions, and has no added General Fund impact. It is subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval, and the agenda lists a time limit of November 3, 2026. 03:26:05

• Adopt items 6 through 9 in one roll call vote. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:26:21

A communication from Karen Bass (Mayor) asking the council to exempt one Assistant Director position (Class Code 7225) at LA Sanitation from civil service under City Charter Section 1001(b). No fiscal analysis was done, according to the agenda. The agenda lists a time limit of November 18, 2026. 03:26:05

• Adopt items 6 through 9 in one roll call vote. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:26:21

A motion by Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District), seconded by Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), asking the Controller's office to move a total of $4,420,833 (agenda) from about two dozen city departments and bureaus into an Engineering fund. The money pays the city's 2026-27 enterprise agreement with Esri for geographic information system software and support. The Department of Water and Power's share is the largest, at $2,121,127 (agenda). The posted motion tells departments to finish the transfers by October 21, 2026, a date before this meeting. It is subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval. The council also voted to send it forward immediately. 03:26:05

• Adopt items 6 through 9 in one roll call vote. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:26:21
• Send item 8 urgent forthwith. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:26:43

Approves a Harbor Commission resolution, No. 26-10789, a first amendment and order resetting the compensation under Permit No. 900 with WWL Vehicle Services Americas for Port of Los Angeles property at Berths 195-200A, and adopts a finding that the action is exempt from state environmental review (agenda). The fiscal statement says suspending the 2026 consumer price index increase costs $290,810. Under a five-year extension from January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2031, the port expects at least $104.2 million, assuming the 2026 minimum annual guarantee of $20.8 million each year (agenda). The agenda lists a time limit of October 30, 2026, the day of this meeting. 03:26:05

• Adopt items 6 through 9 in one roll call vote. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:26:21

At a special meeting the same day, a Public Works Committee report recommended disapproving a CAO report dated August 27, 2026, without prejudice. The reason given was that the report included the wrong contract with NS Corporation for repair and maintenance of the city's automated vehicle wash facilities. Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), seconded by Heather Hutt (Councilmember, Tenth District), moved instead to adopt the recommendations of a CAO report dated October 22, 2026, and the council approved the item as amended. That later report isn't in the packet. The agenda lists a time limit of November 3, 2026. 03:27:27

• Adopt special items 1 through 3, with item 1 as amended by Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District), seconded by Heather Hutt (Councilmember, Tenth District), to adopt the recommendations in the CAO report dated October 22, 2026. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:35:53

• Eunisses Hernandez (Councilmember, First District) called the item special and moved to adopt the recommendations of a CAO report dated October 22, 2026 03:27:30

A communication from the Controller's office on a California Department of Tax and Fee Administration audit of the city's sales and use tax for June 1, 2013 to June 30, 2019. It authorizes moving $3,043,863 (agenda) from the General/Reserve Fund through the Unappropriated Balance to a sales tax trust account and paying that amount to the state. Each department is asked to pay the city back its prorated share of the liability. It is subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval. 03:26:52

• Adopt special items 1 through 3, with item 1 as amended. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:35:53

Lets the police department apply for and accept, retroactively, a $1,350,000 (agenda) grant from the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services for the 2025 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, covering January 1 through December 31, 2026, and enter agreements with affiliate task force agencies. The agenda includes $253,708 in overtime and related costs. The CAO's office reports no added General Fund impact and no match requirement. It is subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval. 03:26:52

• Adopt special items 1 through 3, with item 1 as amended. Result: passed, 10 ayes. 03:35:53

• About 10 people spoke in person and about 7 by phone at the regular meeting. Many comments were general, not about agenda items, and the deputy city attorney repeatedly told speakers to stay on topic.
• A few speakers addressed items 6 through 8. They said they did not trust the city to manage the grant and contract money, asked for safeguards against misuse, and one caller opposed taking the Sanitation assistant director post out of civil service, saying it skips the screening that checks qualifications.
• Several speakers accused council members of corruption; one singled out Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council) and Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District). One in-person speaker and one caller called for recalling Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council), and the caller used racial slurs.
• One speaker urged Nithya Raman (Councilmember, Fourth District) to drop out of the mayoral race, arguing she lacks experience and understanding of the City Charter. Another criticized the mayor's campaign and questioned Imelda Padilla (Councilmember, Sixth District) about her past work history.
• Two callers asked the city to stop issuing permits and street and sidewalk closures to the Church of Scientology, alleging abuses.
• Individual speakers raised a cart fire and street conditions with a demand that the city give tax money back, claims of police and prosecutorial failures, claims of a conspiracy running the city, reinstating call-in public comment at council committee meetings, and a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt's birthday.
• Several speakers used heavy profanity and personal insults. One in-person speaker was warned. A member of the public who had been warned for disrupting was ordered removed after in-person comment closed, and one caller then called that removal viewpoint discrimination.
• At the special meeting, one in-person speaker who used slurs and was off topic forfeited his time and was removed from the chamber. Two callers spoke, mostly off topic.

• Items 3 and 4 (Transit Oriented Development and SB 79 motions, CF 25-1083-S1 and -S2) continued to Tuesday, November 17.
• Item 5 (Carolwood Place naming, CF 26-1267) continued to November 6, the date it was noticed for.
• Council meetings Tuesday, November 3 and Wednesday, November 4 are canceled for election day and the day after. Council returns Friday, November 6. Marqueece Harris-Dawson (Councilmember, Eighth District; President, City Council) reminded people they have until Tuesday to turn in ballots.
• Item 8 (Esri payment) was sent to Karen Bass (Mayor) urgent forthwith. Items 6 and 8 and special items 2 and 3 are subject to Karen Bass (Mayor)'s approval.
• Motions for posting and referral were posted and referred to committees.
• Katy Yaroslavsky (Councilmember, Fifth District) announced a free Great Pumpkin Bash on Sunday, November 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pan Pacific Park, where pumpkins will be smashed for compost.
• Curren Price (Councilmember, Ninth District) announced October 31 as Dog Pound Day in the city.