Civil Rights, Immigration, Social Services, and Neighborhoods Committee · Held · Special

Los Angeles City Council Civil Rights, Immigration, Social Services, and Neighborhoods Committee special meeting, September 11, 2026

September 11, 2026, 3 p.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

From official records: The Los Angeles City Council's Civil Rights, Immigration, Social Services, and Neighborhoods Committee voted 2-0 at a special meeting on Sept. 11, 2026, to ask for a 14-day report on the City's response to the end of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans and other groups, and continued a report on menopause and the City workplace to a later date. The captured agenda had two items. A council file shows the committee also approved, 2-0, $24 million in state aging grants and 2026-27 senior service contracts. The Council adopted the TPS request Sept. 22, 13-0.

As of October 2, 2026, outcomes for the September 11, 2026 meeting of the Civil Rights, Immigration, Social Services, and Neighborhoods Committee of the Los Angeles City Council come from official records posted so far, such as council files, recorded votes and filed statements. Some results may be missing until the full minutes are posted and read.

Committee members, per the agenda: Nithya Raman (chair), Hugo Soto-Martinez (vice chair) and Ysabel Jurado. Soto-Martinez is recorded absent on both posted committee reports (committee report). Item A was added Oct. 1, 2026 from a council file that shows committee action on Sept. 11; it was not on the agenda we captured. The committee approved it as amended, 2-0, and the Council adopted it Sept. 18, 15-0 (committee report, CF 26-1283).

1. Report on menopause symptoms and City employees’ workplace experiences

• What it does: The Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department and the Commission on the Status of Women report on a citywide employee survey and roundtable about menopause at work, and on what the City would need to do to be accredited as a menopause-friendly workplace (department report, Aug. 5, 2026).
• Who brought it: Motion by Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Ysabel Jurado, which the Council adopted in November 2025 (CF 25-1220).
• Who it affects: City employees. In the survey, 91% of respondents said fatigue affects their work and 52% said they missed at least one day of work in the year because of symptoms (department report).
• What happened: Continued to a date to be determined (CF 25-1220).
• What’s next: The report is also referred to the Personnel and Hiring Committee (agenda).

2. 14-day report on the City’s response to the end of Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans and others

• What it does: Directs the Community Investment Department, with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, to report within 14 days on what the City is doing about the end of TPS for Salvadoran and other holders, on added steps such as more use of RepresentLA, rental or other financial aid and outreach, and on the economic effects by industry (committee report).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez for Hugo Soto-Martinez, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson (motion).
• Money: No CAO or CLA financial analysis was completed (committee report).
• Who it affects: The motion says the federal government let El Salvador’s TPS designation, in place since 2001, expire effective Sept. 9, 2026, and that Los Angeles has the largest Salvadoran population of any city outside El Salvador (motion).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: Los Feliz, filed after the committee vote.
• What happened: Approved, 2-0; Raman and Jurado voted yes, Soto-Martinez absent (committee report).
• What’s next: The Council adopted the recommendation Sept. 22, 2026, 13-0, with Heather Hutt and Tim McOsker absent (CF 26-1172).

Next meeting: October 9, 2026 · All meetings