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Los Angeles City Council meeting, September 30, 2026

September 30, 2026, 10 a.m. · Updated October 8, 2026

From official records: On Sept. 30, 2026, the Los Angeles City Council voted on all 72 agenda items and none failed; it continued seven lien hearings and received and filed five liens. It adopted an ordinance putting parts of Mayor Bass's Executive Directive 17 into City law to keep City property from being used for immigration enforcement (14-0; the Mayor approved it the same day, and the council file lists an effective date of Nov. 6, 2026), studies toward restoring weekly street sweeping and refunding wrongly issued tickets, and a review of community safety programs toward a Department of Community Safety. Oversize-vehicle parking bans in Council District 12 and Council District 15 passed 11-3. Outcomes and tallies follow the Council Journal, which matches the council files and the Clerk's Council Vote records.

As of October 8, 2026, outcomes for the September 30, 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

• Monica Rodriguez (CD 7) is recorded absent on all 72 roll calls, and Marqueece Harris-Dawson (CD 8) on 32, mostly the REAP, parks, animal services and parking items 35 to 61 (City Clerk Council Vote records). Counts are our tally of the Clerk’s Council Vote (CVVS) records for Sept. 30, 2026.
• Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado and Hugo Soto-Martinez voted no on both oversize-vehicle parking bans, items 62 and 63 (CF 26-0008-S14, CF 26-0008-S15). No other item drew a no vote.
• At the opening roll call 11 members were present; Bob Blumenfield, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Imelda Padilla and Monica Rodriguez were absent. At the ending roll call 14 were present and Rodriguez was absent (Council Journal).
• Liens: the Council confirmed 18 of items 1 to 29, continued six to Nov. 18 and received and filed four others, and it received and filed the item 3 lien, on a property on E. Sunset Ave., after it was paid (Amending Motion 3A). The files for items 6, 7 and 20 record the adoption as “City Clerk adopted item” (CF 14-0160-S165, CF 14-0160-S331, CF 26-0160-S109). The Journal records items 31 to 33 as adopted on the recommendation to confirm each lien, including liens of $37,877.46 on a property on W. Ventura Blvd. and $160,199.96 on a property on W. Victory Blvd., each 14-0 with Rodriguez absent. It records item 30, a $1,276.56 lien in Council District 14, as continued to Nov. 18, 2026, 14-0 (Council Journal). The Council Vote record for item 30 carries no action label (CF 26-0160-S120).

34. Report on restoring weekly street sweeping and refunding wrongly issued tickets

• What it does: Asks StreetsLA and LADOT for the staff, equipment and cost to restore weekly sweeping citywide, and the City Attorney for state law changes to allow automated enforcement cameras on sweepers. The Transportation Committee added reports on text and multilingual notices, $250,000 to maintain and $500,000 to expand the notification system, the next phases of the sweeping optimization study, and a process to refund wrongly ticketed drivers within 15 days (agenda, Transportation Committee report).
• Who brought it: Motion by Eunisses Hernandez, seconded by Adrin Nazarian (CF 24-1219-S1).
• Who it affects: Posted residential routes, 34% of City streets, went from weekly to every other week in 2021. About 500,000 sweeping tickets a year make up about 26% of parking citations; about 2,000 were issued in error in 2025, and about 350 of those were paid without reimbursement (StreetsLA and LADOT report).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: North Westwood.
• Coverage: The Daily News reported the vote and that the sweeping program has a budget of about $13 million this fiscal year (Daily News, Sept. 30, 2026).
• What happened: Adopted 14-0, Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 24-1219-S1).

56. Rules for private, paid-admission events in City parks

• What it does: Asks Recreation and Parks to report on its rules for private events in parks that charge admission, and to update them with a chance for formal public review (agenda).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Ysabel Jurado (CF 26-1058).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: North Hollywood Northeast.
• What happened: Adopted 13-0, Harris-Dawson and Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 26-1058).

57. Security needs and funding at the six animal shelters

• What it does: Directs Animal Services and other departments to report on security needs and the money needed at each of the six shelters (agenda).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Tim McOsker (CF 26-1291).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: North Hollywood Northeast.
• What happened: Adopted 13-0, Harris-Dawson and Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 26-1291).

58. Evening and weekend hours at animal shelters

• What it does: Directs Animal Services to report on restructuring shelter hours to add evening and weekend hours (agenda).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Tim McOsker (CF 26-1292).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: North Hollywood Northeast.
• What happened: Adopted 13-0, Harris-Dawson and Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 26-1292).

59. Condition and repair needs of Animal Services properties

• What it does: Instructs Animal Services, with General Services, to report on the condition and capital improvement needs of every property the department uses (agenda).
• Who brought it: Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Tim McOsker (CF 26-1293).
• Neighborhood council positions: For: North Hollywood Northeast.
• What happened: Adopted 13-0, Harris-Dawson and Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 26-1293).

62. Overnight oversize-vehicle parking ban on four street segments in Council District 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 both sides of Gothic Ave. (Tupper St. to Knapp St. and Horace St. to Ludlow St.), both sides of Wilbur Ave. (Napa St. to Parthenia St.) and the north side of Horace St. west of Gothic Ave., with tow-away signs (agenda).
• Who brought it: Resolution by John Lee, seconded by Monica Rodriguez (CF 26-0008-S14). The Transportation Committee approved it 3-1, Hernandez voting no and Imelda Padilla absent (committee report).
• What happened: Adopted 11-3; Hernandez, Jurado and Soto-Martinez voted no, Rodriguez absent. A Council Action document dated Oct. 2, 2026 is on the file (Council Action, CF 26-0008-S14).

63. All-hours oversize-vehicle parking ban on street segments in Council District 15

• What it does: Bans parking of vehicles over 22 feet long or 84 inches high at all hours on both sides of listed segments, including Patrice Place, Hamilton Ave. between Knox St. and Del Amo Blvd., and Normandie Ave. between 212th St. and Torrance Blvd., with tow-away signs (agenda).
• Who brought it: Resolution by Tim McOsker, seconded by Monica Rodriguez; the committee report lists a proposed amendment to the resolution dated Sept. 16 (CF 26-0008-S15, committee report).
• What happened: Adopted 11-3; Hernandez, Jurado and Soto-Martinez voted no, Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 26-0008-S15).

67. Executive Directive 17 put into City law: City property and immigration enforcement

• What it does: The ordinance requires departments to control access to non-public parts of City property, post signs on City property and bar its use as a staging area, processing site or base for immigration enforcement. It also requires anyone doing business with the City to disclose, before a contract is signed, contracts involving data collection or sharing with ICE, Customs and Border Protection or Citizenship and Immigration Services (City Attorney report R26-0529).
• Who brought it: Motion by Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Bob Blumenfield, Eunisses Hernandez, Ysabel Jurado, Curren D. Price Jr. and Hugo Soto-Martinez, after Mayor Bass issued the directive Feb. 10, 2026 (CF 26-0204). The City Attorney says the impact fee on property owners who allow enforcement staging is left out until City Planning finishes a nexus study (City Attorney report).
• Money: No fiscal impact statement was submitted (agenda).
• Neighborhood council positions: Los Feliz, Sherman Oaks and North Westwood filed Community Impact Statements (CF 26-0204).
• Coverage: Spectrum News reported that Mayor Bass signed the ordinance hours after the vote, and quoted Hernandez for it and the Los Angeles Police Protective League on Special Order 40 (Spectrum News, Oct. 1, 2026).
• What happened: Adopted forthwith, 14-0, Rodriguez absent; the Mayor approved it Sept. 30, 2026 (Council action).
• What’s next: The council file lists it as Ordinance No. 189064, with an effective date of Nov. 6, 2026 (CF 26-0204).

68. Report on raising the small business tax exemption

• What it does: Asks the Office of Finance for the General Fund cost of raising the exemption from $100,000 in gross receipts to $125,000, $150,000 or $200,000, of indexing it to inflation, and of exempting only restaurants. A Hernandez amendment adds a report on flat or tiered business tax structures (agenda, Budget and Finance Committee report).
• Who brought it: Motion by Monica Rodriguez, seconded by Bob Blumenfield; the Budget and Finance Committee approved it as amended, 5-0 (CF 25-1474, committee report).
• Who it affects: Of about 313,000 businesses that filed for tax year 2025, 143,504 claimed the small business exemption. Businesses paying the tax with under $300,000 in City receipts, about 91,000, paid about $32 million (Office of Finance report).
• What happened: Adopted 14-0, Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 25-1474).

69. Re-create a Business Tax Advisory Committee

• What it does: Instructs the Chief Legislative Analyst, with the Office of Finance, to report in 60 days on re-forming an advisory committee, modeled on the one behind the 2004 business tax reforms, to recommend changes within 12 months. Budget and Finance added the small business exemption to its scope (agenda, Budget and Finance Committee report).
• Who brought it: John Lee, seconded by Tim McOsker, Traci Park and Katy Yaroslavsky (CF 26-0744).
• What happened: Adopted 14-0, Rodriguez absent. The Council adopted the Budget and Finance Committee report on a motion by Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Tim McOsker (CF 26-0744).

70. $5.1 million federal SAFER grant for an engine company at Fire Station 7

• What it does: Lets LAFD keep spending up to $5,103,040 of its fiscal 2022 SAFER grant through March 12, 2027, to staff an engine at Fire Station 7 in Panorama City (CAO report).
• Who brought it: LAFD, through the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees (CF 17-1434-S6).
• Money: The grant has no City match, but the CAO says the City must keep paying bonuses and overtime for the 12 firefighters it funds (agenda). The CAO report gives the full award as $7,752,582.48 (CAO report).
• Who it affects: Council District 6 (CAO report).
• What happened: Adopted 14-0, Rodriguez absent (Council Journal, CF 17-1434-S6).

72. Review of community safety programs toward a Department of Community Safety

• What it does: Directs the CAO and CLA to review City programs in three areas (community crisis response and mental health, violence prevention including domestic violence, and victim support), to design one citywide unarmed crisis response program drawing on the UMCR and CIRCLE pilots, and to inventory every related City service (agenda).
• Who brought it: The Ad Hoc Committee on Unarmed Crisis Prevention approved the April 27 CAO and CLA report as amended, 4-0, with John Lee absent (committee report).
• Money: The CAO and CLA report no fiscal impact for these steps (agenda).
• What happened: Adopted 14-0, Rodriguez absent. The file lists the Council action as final on Oct. 2, 2026 (Council Action, CF 25-0600-S137).

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