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Los Angeles City Council meeting, July 1, 2026

July 1, 2026, 10 a.m. · Updated October 4, 2026

From official records: On July 1, 2026 the Los Angeles City Council adopted 107 of 123 items. It put a Measure ULA tax exemption for Palisades fire-damaged homes on the Nov. 3 ballot, 13-1, dropped a separate ULA exemption for new multifamily buildings, and gave final approval to the Boyle Heights Community Plan zoning, 14-0. It also approved an $88.3 million biosolids contract with Synagro and three police grant transfers on 12-2 and 11-3 votes. Curren D. Price was absent all day. The Council Journal was not posted as of Oct. 1, 2026; outcomes come from council files and the Clerk's Council Vote (CVVS) records.

As of October 4, 2026, outcomes for the July 1, 2026 meeting 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.

Attendance and votes

• The Clerk’s Council Vote (CVVS) records list 128 roll calls on 123 agenda items. Curren D. Price (CD 9) is recorded absent on all 128; every other member was present for each. Counts are our tally of the CVVS records for July 1, 2026.
• Eunisses Hernandez (CD 1) voted no 8 times, Hugo Soto-Martinez (CD 13) 6, Ysabel Jurado (CD 14) 3, Adrin Nazarian (CD 2) 2, and Nithya Raman (CD 4) and Katy Yaroslavsky (CD 5) once each. The split votes were on three police grants (items 30, 38, 79; for example CF 25-1391), the Crowley lawsuit counsel (item 70), three ULA items (81, 82, 117), the CD 12 oversize-vehicle ban (item 93) and CD 12 police overtime (item 103), each linked below.
• The Clerk’s Council Action forms for items 30 and 103 list Jurado as voting no, and the form for item 118 lists Traci Park as voting no (item 30 form, item 103 form, item 118 form). The roll calls on the council files and in CVVS show those members voting yes (CF 25-0031, CF 26-0942, CF 26-1100-S10). The tallies on this page follow the roll calls.

30. Fund transfer for the $9.5 million federal COPS grant paying 20 LAPD officers at two South LA parks

• What it does: Moves money under the 2024 Community Oriented Policing Services hiring grant, which the Council and Mayor accepted in May 2025. The grant pays for 20 new Police Officer II positions that backfill patrol at the Community Safety Partnership sites in Algin Sutton Park and Gilbert Lindsay Park (CAO report, July 23, 2025).
• Money: $9,544,040 in federal money over Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2029 (CAO report).
• Who it affects: Council Districts 8 and 9 (CAO report).
• What happened: Adopted, 12-2; Hernandez and Soto-Martinez voted no, Price absent (CF 25-0031).
• What’s next: The Mayor approved the action July 14, 2026 (Council Action form).

38. Fund transfer for a $189,600 state homeland security grant for Fire and Police

• What it does: Moves money under the 2024 State Homeland Security Program grant the Council accepted in April 2026. The grant funds approved Fire and Police projects through Feb. 28, 2027, including up to $50,000 for incident management team training (CAO report, Feb. 20, 2026).
• Money: $189,600 in grant money passed through the County (CAO report).
• What happened: Adopted, 11-3; Hernandez, Jurado and Soto-Martinez voted no, Price absent (CF 25-1541).
• What’s next: The Mayor approved the action July 14, 2026 (Council Action form).

48. $88.3 million, up to eight-year Synagro contract to haul and manage sewage biosolids

• What it does: Lets the Board of Public Works sign a service agreement with Synagro West, LLC for biosolids management: five years plus one three-year option, starting no earlier than Aug. 21, 2026 (Energy and Environment Committee report).
• Money: Up to $88,280,581 from the Sewer Construction and Maintenance Fund; the CAO reports no General Fund impact (committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0784). The committee had approved it 4-0, with Yaroslavsky absent (committee report).

50. Two sewer inspection and cleaning contracts worth up to $22 million

• What it does: Lets the Board of Public Works sign five-year agreements, with up to two more years month to month, with National Plant Services, Inc. and RedZone Robotics for closed-circuit TV sewer inspection and sewer cleaning (Energy and Environment Committee report).
• Money: Up to $22,000,000 combined from the Sewer Construction and Maintenance Fund; no General Fund impact, per the CAO (committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0706).

53. $96.8 million workforce development plan for program year 2026-27

• What it does: Approves the Workforce Development Board’s Year 27 Annual Plan and the related EWDD and CAO reports (Economic Development and Jobs Committee report).
• Money: About $96.8 million from federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act money, County grants and other sources. Reimbursements to the General Fund rise by about $0.2 million, to $4.7 million (committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0811).

65. Move $4.2 million to pay the approved Asdrubal Solis motorcycle-crash settlement

• What it does: Funds the settlement the Council approved in April 2026 in a case over a Jan. 31, 2023 motorcycle and car crash at Eagle Rock Boulevard and Avenue 42 (settlement motion).
• Money: $4,200,000 from the Liability Claims Fund: $2,800,000 due by Aug. 31, 2026 and $1,400,000 by Dec. 31, 2027 (settlement motion).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0415).

67. Move $1.95 million to pay the approved Isidro Vera-Cruz pedestrian-crash settlement

• What it does: Funds the settlement the Council approved in April 2026 in a case over a March 10, 2022 crash involving several vehicles and a pedestrian in the crosswalk at West Adams Boulevard and South Budlong Avenue (settlement motion).
• Money: $1,950,000 from the Liability Claims Fund in fiscal year 2026-27 (settlement motion).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0393).

70. Move $500,000 for outside lawyers defending the City against former Fire Chief Kristin Crowley’s lawsuit

• What it does: Funds the three-year contract with Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP that the Council approved June 10 for the case Kristin Crowley v. City of Los Angeles (Budget and Finance Committee report).
• Money: $500,000 from the Unappropriated Balance line for outside counsel to the City Attorney (City Attorney report).
• What happened: Adopted, 13-1; Nazarian voted no, Price absent. Nazarian also voted no on the contract June 10 (CF 26-0625).
• What’s next: The Mayor approved it July 14 (Council Action form). On Sept. 9 the Council adopted, 11-0, a Budget and Finance report approving a later City Attorney report on the contract (CF 26-0625).

79. Fund transfer for $384,203 more in state traffic enforcement (STEP) grant money for LAPD

• What it does: Carries out the LAPD’s acceptance of supplemental 2025-26 Selective Traffic Enforcement Program money from the state Office of Traffic Safety, for Oct. 1, 2025 to Sept. 30, 2026 (CAO report, June 8, 2026).
• Money: $384,203 added, for a total grant of $6,789,203 (CAO report).
• What happened: Adopted, 11-3; Hernandez, Jurado and Soto-Martinez voted no, Price absent (CF 25-1391).

80. Final vote on the zoning ordinances that carry out the new Boyle Heights Community Plan

• What it does: Second reading of the ordinances implementing the Boyle Heights Community Plan update, including new zoning under Chapter 1A, a Community Plan Implementation Overlay and EV charging standards. The Council approved the plan changes April 29, 2026 (PLUM Committee report).
• Who it affects: Council District 14. LAist, republishing The LA Local and Boyle Heights Beat, reported the plan allows 13,000 new homes and 37,000 more residents through 2040, citing City Planning, and is the first update since 1998 (LAist, July 9, 2026).
• Coverage: LAist, July 9, 2026.
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 23-0861).
• What’s next: The ordinances took effect Aug. 20, 2026 (CF 23-0861).

81. Ask LAHD for a ULA tax exemption or refund for nonprofits that put sale money into affordable housing

• What it does: As amended by Motion 81A (Jurado, Blumenfield), the Council deleted the committee’s first four recommendations and asked LAHD to report in 30 days on a ULA amendment giving a limited exemption or retroactive refund to 501(c)(3) buyers or sellers that show all sale proceeds went to deed-restricted affordable housing. LAHD and the Office of Finance are also to report on staffing to run it (committee report).
• Who brought it: Motion by Bob Blumenfield, seconded by John Lee, through the Ad Hoc Committee on Measure ULA (committee report).
• Money: No CAO or CLA financial analysis was completed (committee report).
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 13-1; Hernandez voted no, Price absent. The file lists two earlier roll calls on the item that day, 10-4 (Hernandez, Nazarian, Raman and Soto-Martinez no) and 14-0, without saying what each was on (CF 26-0775).

82. Ask LAHD for a ULA tax credit for new affordable multifamily projects and a homeless housing pilot

• What it does: Asks LAHD and the City Attorney for ULA amendment language creating a five-year pilot tax credit that would bring the effective ULA rate to 1.5% on sales of new multifamily and mixed-use projects that include covenanted lower-income units, paid prevailing wages and sell within a set period of completion. Motion 82A (Jurado, Harris-Dawson) changed that window to ten years and replaced a rental-assistance program with a report on a three-year ULA Alternative Models pilot to buy vacant sites for people leaving homelessness (committee report).
• Who brought it: Motion by John Lee, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson; the Ad Hoc Committee approved Jurado’s substitute recommendations 2-1, with Lee voting no (committee report).
• Money: Motion 82A funds the pilot by moving uncommitted money from ULA programs at the end of each funding round, capped at 10% of each spending category (Motion 82A).
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 13-1; Yaroslavsky voted no, Price absent (CF 26-0782).

84. ULA reporting rules: oversight committee recommendations and annual metrics, plus a public-land exemption study

• What it does: Asks the City Attorney for an ordinance requiring LAHD to send every ULA Citizens Oversight Committee recommendation to the Council as an official document, and has LAHD report yearly on units by income level and location, construction jobs, people housed and cost per unit (committee report). Motion 84A (Yaroslavsky, Padilla) added a report on exempting transactions on publicly owned land, including transit-oriented housing.
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0088-S1).

87. Three ordinances changing cannabis license refiling and renewal rules

• What it does: Three ordinances amend Municipal Code Section 104.12 on Department of Cannabis Regulation processes, renewal periods and reinstatement, and refiling of applications (joint committee report). The Council Action form lists the joint report and the refiling ordinance (City Attorney report R26-0297) as the adopted documents (Council Action form).
• Who brought it: John Lee (CF 25-1126).
• Money: No fiscal analysis was completed (joint committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 25-1126).
• What’s next: The ordinance took effect Aug. 26, 2026 (CF 25-1126).

88. Business tax amnesty for cannabis businesses: penalties and interest waived, payment plans up to five years

• What it does: Tells the Office of Finance to run a business tax amnesty for registered cannabis businesses with full waiver of penalties and interest and installment plans up to three years, or five years for small businesses with large debts. It also asks for a plan for a tax exemption for social equity cannabis businesses with a threshold between $100,000 and $1,000,000 in gross receipts (joint committee report).
• Money: $200,000 for Office of Finance overtime and $100,000 for as-needed salaries, to be covered by higher cannabis tax revenue (joint committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 25-0600-S125).
• What’s next: The Office of Finance reports within 45 days after the application deadline on participation and the amount waived. A City Attorney document was referred to committees Sept. 1 (CF 25-0600-S125).

89. Accept the $6.49 million 2026 Community Services Block Grant for FamilySource Centers

• What it does: Lets the Community Investment for Families Department accept the state CSBG award and use it to run the FamilySource Center system for calendar year 2026 (joint committee report).
• Money: $6,487,190: $4,686,302 for programs and $1,800,888 for administration (joint committee report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0664).

92. Update scooter and bike-share trip fees so the program covers its own costs

• What it does: Notes and files a May 29 CAO analysis and asks the City Attorney for an ordinance updating On-Demand Mobility (dockless) trip fees. It also has the CAO track program revenue and LADOT report on contracting out the next fee study (Budget and Finance Committee report).
• Money: LADOT reports current fees have not covered program costs, so the General Fund has covered the shortfall; the new fees would make the program fully cost-recovering (committee report).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: Downtown Los Angeles (committee report).
• What happened: The Council adopted a Yaroslavsky and Harris-Dawson motion to adopt the Budget and Finance report, 14-0; Price absent (CF 17-1125).
• What’s next: A City Attorney document was referred to committees Aug. 26; the Public Works and Transportation Committees approved the item Sept. 8 and Budget and Finance concurred Sept. 15 (CF 17-1125).

93. Overnight ban on oversize vehicles on parts of Vanowen, Devonshire and Mayall streets in CD 12

• What it does: Bans parking of vehicles over 22 feet long or 84 inches high from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Vanowen Street from Gross Avenue to Lederer Avenue, Devonshire Street from Mason Avenue to Winnetka Avenue, and Mayall Street from Vanalden Avenue to Topeka Drive, with tow-away signs (Substitute Motion 93).
• Who brought it: Resolution by John Lee, seconded by Monica Rodriguez; Lee and Imelda Padilla moved the substitute (CF 26-0008-S11).
• What happened: Substitute Motion 93 adopted, 11-3; Hernandez, Jurado and Soto-Martinez voted no, Price absent. An earlier roll call on the item was 14-0 (CF 26-0008-S11).

96. Temporary ban on new by-right permits for smoke and vape shops across Council District 15

• What it does: An interim control ordinance stops the City from processing or issuing by-right land use permits for smoke and vape shops, and related tobacco retailer permits, across Council District 15, including Harbor Gateway, Wilmington-Harbor City and San Pedro. The ordinance counts 117 active tobacco retailer permits in the district as of 2025 (draft ordinance).
• Who brought it: Tim McOsker (CF 25-0916).
• What happened: City Attorney report and ordinance adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 25-0916).
• What’s next: On Aug. 11 the Council acted on a City Planning communication and a McOsker and Blumenfield resolution on the same file (Aug. 11 Council action).

103. $200,000 from CD 12 discretionary money for LAPD overtime in the Devonshire Division

• What it does: Moves $200,000 from the Council District 12 General City Purposes line to LAPD sworn overtime for added police outreach in the Devonshire Division (motion).
• Who brought it: John Lee, seconded by Imelda Padilla (motion).
• What happened: Adopted, 12-2; Hernandez and Soto-Martinez voted no, Price absent (CF 26-0942).

107. Approve up to $50 million in state-agency bonds to buy and fix 125 affordable apartments at eight sites

• What it does: A federally required approval (TEFRA) so the California Municipal Finance Authority can issue bonds for Citywide Apartments Preservation, L.P. to buy and rehabilitate 125 units for low-income tenants at 2375 Scarff St., 2714 Orchard Ave., 1063 W. 39th Pl., 1040 W. 43rd St., 1733 W. 58th St., 111 S. Avenue 63, 2747 Newell St. and 811 N. Heliotrope Dr. (motion).
• Who brought it: Curren D. Price Jr., seconded by Hugo Soto-Martinez (CF 26-0933).
• Money: Up to $50,000,000; no City funds are pledged and the City has no repayment liability (motion).
• Who it affects: Council Districts 1, 8, 9, 13 and 14 (motion).
• What happened: Adopted as urgent, 14-0 on each of two roll calls; Price absent (CF 26-0933).

110. Approve up to $250 million in state-agency bonds to rebuild 60 homes on Palisades fire lots

• What it does: A TEFRA approval so the California Public Finance Authority can issue bonds for the Uplifters Foundation to build 60 single-family homes on up to 65 parcels on Palisades streets burned in January 2025, including blocks of Galloway, Hartzell, Fiske, Swarthmore, Bollinger and Sunset (motion).
• Who brought it: Tim McOsker for Traci Park, seconded by Adrin Nazarian (CF 26-0935).
• Money: Up to $250,000,000; no City funds pledged and no City repayment liability (motion).
• Who it affects: Council District 11 (motion).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0935).

112. City supports AB 2180, letting DWP use reasonable methods to spread water service costs among parcels

• What it does: Adds support for AB 2180 (Ward) to the City’s 2025-26 state legislative program. The bill would let DWP show proportional cost of service under Proposition 218 with rate methods that reasonably allocate costs among parcels (resolution).
• Who brought it: Adrin Nazarian, seconded by Bob Blumenfield (CF 25-0002-S125).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 25-0002-S125).

114. Ordinance waiving City permit fees to repair or rebuild buildings lost in the January 2025 wildfires

• What it does: Adds Municipal Code Section 98.0419.1 waiving fees for permits to repair or rebuild buildings damaged or destroyed by the January 2025 wildfires. The Ad Hoc Committee for LA Recovery swapped in subsection (b) from the earlier Exhibit A draft (committee report).
• Money: No fiscal analysis was submitted (committee report).
• Who it affects: Council District 11 is listed on the file (CF 25-0006-S57).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 25-0006-S57).
• What’s next: The ordinance took effect July 16, 2026 (CF 25-0006-S57).

115. Ordinance tightening confidentiality of City data that could reveal a person’s immigration status

• What it does: Amends Administrative Code Section 19.192 so City personnel may share data that could identify a person’s citizenship or immigration status with a contractor only if it is needed for a City service and the contractor agrees in writing not to disclose it; employees must treat such data as confidential (draft ordinance).
• Who brought it: Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman and Hugo Soto-Martinez (CF 23-0243).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 23-0243).
• What’s next: The ordinance took effect Aug. 26, 2026 (CF 23-0243).

116. Resolution opposing the Arroyo Seco Water Reuse Project sent back to committee

• What it does: The resolution would put the City on record against the Pasadena and South Pasadena Arroyo Seco Water Reuse Project, which would divert Arroyo Seco water and runoff and use land in L.A.’s San Pascual Park. It cites the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians-Kizh Nation’s request for full avoidance of the site (resolution).
• Who brought it: Ysabel Jurado, with Imelda Padilla on the substitute resolution (CF 26-0777).
• Neighborhood council positions: For the resolution: Historic Highland Park, Los Feliz, Bel Air-Beverly Crest. Palms filed a statement on Sept. 7, 2026.
• Coverage: The Daily News reported that Pasadena extended public comment on the project’s environmental report to Aug. 1 the same day, and that Jurado’s amendment added the Council’s land acknowledgment and opposition from more tribes (Daily News, July 1, 2026).
• What happened: The Council adopted a Jurado and Harris-Dawson motion referring the matter and the substitute resolution to the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0777).

117. Put a ULA tax exemption for Palisades fire-damaged homes on the Nov. 3 ballot

• What it does: Places a measure on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot exempting from the ULA tax any sale, from Jan. 7, 2025 through Jan. 6, 2030, of residential property damaged or destroyed in the Palisades Fire by the owner at the time of the fire. The exemption applies to taxes already paid. The City Attorney notes July 1 was the Council’s deadline to adopt final ballot resolutions for Nov. 3 (City Attorney report).
• What happened: City Attorney report and ballot resolution adopted, 13-1; Hernandez voted no, Price absent. The ordinance was held to Aug. 4 for second reading (Council action).
• What’s next: On Aug. 4 the Council adopted the ordinance as amended, 13-1, with Hernandez voting no; it is Proposition TE (Aug. 4 Council action, CAO statements).

118. Proposed ballot measure exempting new multifamily buildings from the ULA tax dropped

• What it does: The City Attorney had drafted a Nov. 3 measure exempting sales of newly built multifamily and mixed-use projects within ten years of completion from the ULA tax, letting House LA money pay for interim housing, and changing Citizens Oversight Committee appointments (City Attorney report R26-0374).
• What happened: The Council adopted a Yaroslavsky and McOsker motion to note and file the matter, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-1100-S10). The CAO’s list of the eight City measures on the Nov. 3 ballot does not include it (CAO statements).

119. Ratify the Mayor’s local emergency for the Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse fire

• What it does: Ratifies the Mayor’s June 20 declaration of local emergency for the June 17 fire at a cold-storage warehouse in Boyle Heights. The resolution cites ammonia releases, rooftop solar, lithium-ion batteries and about 85 million pounds of decaying food at the site (Resolution 1A).
• Who brought it: Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez (Resolution 1A).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0906).
• What’s next: The Council adopted the resolution again Aug. 19 (Aug. 19 Council action).

120. Keep Motorola maintaining LAPD’s records, dispatch and smartphone systems

• What it does: A CAO communication on a professional services agreement with Motorola Solutions, Inc. to keep maintaining the PremierOne software behind LAPD’s records management system, computer-aided dispatch and responder smartphone app (CF 26-0910).
• Money: The CAO report on the file is a scanned image without searchable text, so we did not extract an amount (CAO report).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (Council action).

121. Street Lighting to report in 30 days on funding options after the assessment ballot failed

• What it does: Asks the Bureau of Street Lighting to report in 30 days with options to fund streetlights. The motion says the street lighting assessment rate has been frozen since 1996 and the spring 2026 assessment ballot failed, leaving a funding gap (motion).
• Who brought it: Eunisses Hernandez and Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson (CF 26-0955).
• What happened: Adopted, 14-0; Price absent (CF 26-0955).
• What’s next: Street Lighting and the CAO filed reports in August; the Public Works Committee continued the item Aug. 26 to a date to be determined (CF 26-0955).

123. Ballot order and letter designations for the City’s Nov. 3, 2026 measures

• What it does: Sets the order of the City’s measures on the Nov. 3 ballot and asks the County Registrar for letter designations, starting with the Palisades fire ULA exemption and ending with the Fire Department sales tax, Initiative Ordinance FD (Substitute Motion 123).
• Who brought it: Substitute motion by Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Tim McOsker, amended on the floor by Hernandez and Rodriguez and by McOsker and Harris-Dawson (Substitute Motion 123).
• What happened: Adopted as amended, 14-0 on each of two roll calls; Price absent (CF 26-1100-S20).
• What’s next: The CAO’s Aug. 25 impact statements list eight City measures: TE, LA, PL, EE, PRK, PRT, SC and FD (CAO statements).

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