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Los Angeles City Council Ad Hoc Committee for LA Recovery special meeting, October 9, 2026

October 9, 2026, 1 p.m. · Updated October 10, 2026

On the agenda: The Los Angeles City Council's Ad Hoc Committee for LA Recovery met in special session on Oct. 9, 2026, with two reports on its agenda: a Community Investment Department feasibility study of a Palisades Disaster Recovery District, which would set aside part of future property tax growth in about 8,940 fire-area parcels for rebuilding projects and which the department says needs a Council resolution of intention by Jan. 7, 2027, and a Chief Legislative Analyst report on how fire emergency declarations affect City workforce rules such as local hire. The council files for the district study and the workforce report showed no committee action, and the Journal was not posted, as of Oct. 10, 2026.

Agenda only. As of October 10, 2026, minutes for the October 9, 2026 meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee for LA Recovery of the Los Angeles City Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.

The committee chair called the special meeting for 1 p.m. in Room 401, City Hall. Items are numbered as on the agenda, posted Oct. 7, 2026. Committee members since Aug. 31, 2026, per the Council President’s assignment letter: Traci Park (chair), Monica Rodriguez (vice chair) and Tim McOsker. The agenda says the committee took public comment in person only. The Clerk posted speaker cards from the meeting on both council files on Oct. 9, 2026, but neither file recorded a committee action as of Oct. 10 (CF 25-0006-S38, CF 25-0342).

1. Palisades Disaster Recovery District feasibility study

• What it does: The Community Investment Department reports on a Disaster Recovery District under state Senate Bill 782 (Pérez). The district would keep a base-year amount of property tax flowing to the General Fund and send part of the growth above it to recovery projects. The department asks the Council to have the City Administrative Officer report on what share of tax growth the City should commit, which projects come first, and limits that protect future General Fund revenue. If the Council then goes ahead, the department would work with the City Attorney on a resolution of intention (CID report).
• Deadline: State law requires the resolution within two years of the Governor’s Jan. 7, 2025 emergency declaration, so by Jan. 7, 2027. The department says adopting it would not commit the City to finish forming the district (CID report).
• Who it affects: The proposed boundary covers about 2,790 acres and 8,940 parcels in Council District 11, drawn mainly from parcels with destroyed or damaged structures. Their assessed value fell from about $21.3 billion before the fire to about $16.3 billion, which the department puts at an estimated $17 million a year in lost City General Fund property tax (CID report).
• Money: The study, done with consultant Kosmont Companies, estimates $1.17 billion to $4.52 billion in tax growth over 50 years at 6.3% average yearly growth, and $3.14 billion to $12.13 billion at 9.58%. The low end assumes a City-only district taking 25% of the City’s share. The high end assumes the City and County each contribute 50%. A preliminary project list totals about $1.0 billion. At 25% from both the City and County, the study estimates about $863 million for projects, including $627 million for electric system work and $185 million for water, sewer and storm drain work. The department says the County has not yet decided whether to join and that talks are ongoing. Enhanced infrastructure financing districts, a similar tool, cost other cities $150,000 to $550,000 to set up (CID report). The Budget and Finance Committee report the Council adopted in March 2026 authorized $300,000 from the Economic Development Trust Fund for Kosmont and other consultants on the study (Budget and Finance Committee report).
• Who brought it: Traci Park moved the original motion, seconded by Adrin Nazarian and Curren D. Price Jr. (CF 25-0006-S38). The Council voted 14-0 on March 27, 2026, with McOsker absent, to adopt the Budget and Finance Committee report that asked for this study. Bob Blumenfield moved that action and Marqueece Harris-Dawson seconded it (motion, CF 25-0006-S38).
• Neighborhood council positions: The Westwood, Del Rey, North Westwood, Westside, Palms and Bel Air-Beverly Crest neighborhood councils filed Community Impact Statements on the file between March and May 2025, before the Disaster Recovery District proposal (CF 25-0006-S38). The agenda lists none for this report.
• What’s next: The report is also referred to the Budget and Finance Committee (CF 25-0006-S38).

2. Fire emergency declarations and City workforce rules

• What it does: The Chief Legislative Analyst’s report, dated Jan. 8, 2026, answers a Council request for an analysis of the local, state and federal fire emergency declarations and their effect on City workforce rules when public money pays for the work (joint committee report). The motion said the declarations could suspend policies such as local hire and apprenticeship training for Palisades rebuilding. It named the Targeted Local Hire Program and the Public Infrastructure Stabilization Ordinance (motion).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Traci Park, on March 28, 2025 (CF 25-0342). The Council adopted the request 13-0 on July 30, 2025, with Bob Blumenfield and Adrin Nazarian absent. The same action asked the Bureau of Contract Administration to report on hiring by the City and its contractors on public rebuilding work (CF 25-0342, joint committee report).
• Neighborhood council positions: None submitted (agenda).