Good morning! This is @hasrra18, I'm a little sick but nevertheless getting ready to live-tweet this morning's 10am LA City Council meeting for ya!
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@hasrra18 To call in & give Public Comment at Today's City Council Meeting
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Meeting ID 160 535 8466 #
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Dial 669-254-5252
Meeting ID 160 535 8466 #
It'll ask for an ID number- just press # again
Once admitted press *9 to speak
@hasrra18 where restaurant diners sit and eat on the very sidewalks that unhoused people get booted from
@hasrra18 the motion suggests considerings lots of issues like parking and noise, but I saw nothing about ADA accessibility
@hasrra18 item 11 is about offering free menstrual products at all restrooms in city-owned buildings, which sounds good
@hasrra18 item 19 is about a plan to provide all LAUSD 1st graders with $50 in a college savings account laist.com/news/education…
@hasrra18 item 20 is motion from Bonin + Raman saying while we currently don't have genuine alternatives to living on the streets, we at least should stop harming people living in encampments. offers an alternative based on the #ServicesNotSweeps Coalition @NoSweepsLA
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA the motion says that cleaning of encampments should include:
-regular predictable cleaning schedules
-voluntary offer of trash pickup
-hiring unhoused people to keep stuff clean between cleanings
-NO COPS
-regular predictable cleaning schedules
-voluntary offer of trash pickup
-hiring unhoused people to keep stuff clean between cleanings
-NO COPS
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA item 35: $100k for rapid rehousing program in CD 11 called the Self-Help and Recovery Exchange (SHARE!) According to their website they have disabled people pay $500-900/month to “live like college roommates” ie share a room
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA item 37 is about using parking lots in Leimert Park for a farmers market, administered by Project 43 (they'd get $75k) and Black Owned & Operated Community Land Trust ($25k)
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA item 39 is about looking for more funding for Project Roomkey, a temporary housing program where you don't actually get a key to your own room knock-la.com/project-roomke…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA item 38 would accept funding from Warner Media for ReelAbilities, a film festival by and for people with disabilities, which seems cool
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA 10:13 de León Koretz Krekorian Lee absent. pledge of allegiance : (
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA item 2 continued to 3/30. Harris-Dawson calls 5 (al fresco) special for amendment. Blumenfield calls item 11 (menstrual products) special for comment. Item 40 held by Krekorian for comments (even though I think he's not there). vote on 3-10, 12-20, all yes.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA public comment begins on items 1, 21-41
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA Rob Quan from UnRigLA says hey Herb, good to have you back, I missed you, and your form 700 is a month overdue (Herb Wesson is back) laweekly.com/l-a-judge-allo…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA next caller is @Maebe_A_Girl from Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, disturbed by special enforcement zones in the neighborhood in places with encampments, says 41.18 targets people experiencing homelessness
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @Maebe_A_Girl says we're coming up on a year since the Echo Park Lake eviction, and of the 200 evicted only 4 are now in permanent supportive housing. Repeal 41 18.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller works in public policy from chamber of commerce, doesn't want us to ban single use plastic products (item 40 would support CA Recycling and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act to reduce single use plastic products)
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller from Koreatown CD 10 is glad Herb is back. next is also CD 10 resident, thanks city council for appointing Wesson as caretaker, says he's longtime resident with the knowledge and taxation w/o representation is unfair, thank you very much and have a nice day!
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is Sam Williams formerly of the LADWP, says the city discriminates against urban Black males, he witnessed racist sexual discrimination on the job, won't sign a non disparagement agreement. says see you at the mayoral debate and I'm bringing my crew.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is cofounder of Reimagine LA foundation and thanks the city for giving our voice/vote back in Herb Wesson.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is from Nature Conservancy and supports item 40 to reduce single-use plastics.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller on 38 (Warner Media $ for filmfestival). says someone in WM is illegally making bad deals, trying to buy CNN, + that de León + O'Farrell sent Pentagon documents to Dept of Disability that were supposed to send to Dept of Defense, high treason, should go to prison. ?
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl caller says no to item 6 (about $9 million for various environmental consulting firms). says item 9 (a construction project in Beverly Hills) was his property in 1976, its a hot property, don't believe any assessors report, all illegally modified, even the address is modified
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller says welcome back Herb, glad to have representation again. next says clearly Herb is more interested in repping CD10 than Martinez is in being president. says this morning Herb fired 2 highly paid POC from R-T staff.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl caller says they're subpoena-ing Fauble for wire fraud, says you're going to answer my questions! gets cut off by Fauble (guy who takes the calls)
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is from Valley Industry and Commerce Association, speaks against item 40 to reduce single use plastics, says the phrase "working families" a bunch of times
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller says lots of rental says lots of places don't allow dogs in rental buildings and they should. they could offer a pet fee, thats fine, but there's no good reason not to allow pets. says my parents had a hard time finding a home and more pets would find homes too.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is from Monterrey Bay Aquarium and fully supports item 40
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl Next says 30 min public comment for 4 mil people is disgrace to democracy. calls city councilors kings + queens of homelessness. says item 37 will destroy black businesses of Leimert Park by taking away their parking. says politicians are corrupt, no real rep in Black community.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next welcomes Wesson, speaks slowly and doesn't really get to concerns are about parking in Leimert Park before getting cut off.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl next caller is plastics analysts from ocean conservancy, supports 40
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl item 11 called special by Blumenfield: urges support to treat menstrual products equal to other hygiene products like soap and paper towels, for women and some trans gendered men. all vote yes
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl item 40 called special by Krekorian: says we're in a crisis of plastic pollution- by 2050 there will be more plastics than fish in ocean
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl Krekorian says we've been told the solution is personal/shopping/recycling, but most plastics recycling is fraudulent. even when we shipped it to China/Asia, much of it was burned. the only solution is to put the responsibility on the producers of plastic.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl Mitch says he gets handed plastic straw even tho its a law that he's supposed to be asked first so we have to change the culture but also stop it at the source. thanks himself and everyone involved. says 9 million tons of plastic enter the ocean a year. all vote yes.
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl de León gives a presentation on a "housing outreach program" he did at Tuorami Plaza on Thursday, oh wow
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl says he worked in coordination with the mayor, city attorney, LAHSA, dept of transportation, urban alchemy and housed 108/115 people experiencing homelessness there. presents a slideshow on the "misery" of people experiencing homelessness, and how much stuff he threw away
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl says the plaza "belongs to all of us" and of the people who were living there "the vast majority are so, so happy" and now "they have dignity"
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl de León says activists called his female staff cunts and whores and sluts and bitches all day
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl says it's insulting to compare his action to executive order 9066 forcibly removing Japanese-Americans, particularly from Boyle Heights, and sending them to internment camps. also thinks concentration camp comparisons are not cool
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl de León says activists tried to persuade people not to take housing by calling them sellouts said persuaded by activists to not take housing, said ppl were called sellouts
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl here's some background and other perspectives from @lisaskwon lataco.com/little-tokyo-h…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @lisaskwon check out @JTOWNACTION for more background and perspective also
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @lisaskwon @JTOWNACTION Blumenfield Krekorian Rodriguez and Lee memorialize Nora Ross valleycultural.org/news/nora-ross…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @lisaskwon @JTOWNACTION Harris-Dawson memorializes Jimmy Chavarria who died saving his wife and child from a hit and run driver losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/03/10/la-…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @lisaskwon @JTOWNACTION O'Farrell memorializes Susan Espiritu Dilkes legacy.com/us/obituaries/…
@hasrra18 @NoSweepsLA @Maebe_A_Girl @lisaskwon @JTOWNACTION Meeting adjourns. Thanks for reading, have a good day!
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