Echo Park Neighborhood Council · Held
Echo Park Neighborhood Council meeting, October 27, 2026
On the agenda: The Echo Park Neighborhood Council's Board of Governors was scheduled to meet in person on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, at 7 p.m. at St Paul's Commons, 840 Echo Park Ave. The agenda asked the board to approve, on its consent calendar, a request for Council District 1 to repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18 and Community Impact Statements on CF 25-0207 and CF 26-1347 asking the City to publish a monthly list of City-funded interim housing sites. It also listed a letter supporting a higher minimum parks budget in the City Charter and a Neighborhood Purpose Grant of up to $1,000. The agenda had 11 numbered items. Minutes were not posted on the council's website as of Oct. 31, 2026.
Agenda only. As of October 31, 2026, minutes for the October 27, 2026 meeting of the Echo Park Neighborhood Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.
| Where | St Paul's Commons Retreat Center, Paul the Apostle Room, 840 Echo Park Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90026 |
|---|---|
| Agenda | Official agenda (posted October 24, 2026) |
| City Council districts | Council District 1, Council District 13 |
The agenda bundled items 7.a.i and 7.a.ii into a consent calendar with a single vote. A board member or stakeholder could ask at the start to have an item taken up separately. The agenda set the meeting as in person only, with public comment at one minute per speaker (agenda).
7.a.i. Request to repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18
- What it does: The agenda asked the board to approve a Request for Action asking Council District 1 to repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18. The agenda gave no text of the request and named no council file (agenda).
- Who brought it: The Homelessness and Housing Committee and the Community Organizations and Schools Committee. The agenda listed their vote as 4-0-0-1 (agenda).
7.a.ii. Statements seeking a monthly list of City-funded interim housing sites
- What it does: The agenda asked the board to approve Community Impact Statements of approval, if amended, on Council Files 25-0207 and 26-1347. The statements asked the City to publish a monthly list of City-funded interim housing sites with ID numbers, total beds, beds offline and who each site serves. The list would carry no personal information and no location details for domestic violence or youth sites (agenda).
- Who brought it: The Community Organizations and Schools Committee, by a 3-0-0 vote, the agenda said (agenda).
- Where the files stand: CF 26-1347 is a Sept. 22, 2026 motion by Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Ysabel Jurado, on the region’s interim housing resources and facility bed matching. The Homelessness and Health Committee continued it on Oct. 28, 2026, on a 3-0 vote with two members absent (CF 26-1347). CF 25-0207, a motion by Nithya Raman seconded by Bob Blumenfield and Katy Yaroslavsky, concerns a bureau in the Los Angeles Housing Department to oversee homeless services. The Council adopted an amended committee report on it on Aug. 12, 2026, and the Homelessness and Health Committee discussed it on Oct. 14, 2026 with no action (CF 25-0207).
7.e.iii. Letter supporting a higher minimum parks budget in the City Charter
- What it does: The agenda asked the board to approve a letter of support for increasing the minimum parks budget in the City Charter. It gave no amount and named no council file (agenda).
- Who brought it: The Executive Committee, by a 4-0 vote, the agenda said (agenda). The same letter was on the agenda of the committee’s Oct. 12, 2026 special meeting (Oct. 12 agenda).
Every item
| # | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 7.a.i | Consent calendar: request for Council District 1 to repeal Los Angeles Municipal Code Section 41.18 | Not posted yet |
| 7.a.ii | Consent calendar: Community Impact Statements on CF 25-0207 and 26-1347 seeking a monthly list of City-funded interim housing sites | Not posted yet |
| 7.e.iii | Letter supporting a higher minimum parks budget in the City Charter | Not posted yet |
| 1 | Call to order, roll call, land acknowledgement and Sept. 22, 2026 minutes | Not posted yet |
| 2 | Reports from LAPD, LAFD, Council Districts 1 and 13, the Mayor's office, the Assembly and EmpowerLA | Not posted yet |
| 3 | Officer reports | Not posted yet |
| 4 | Committee chair and liaison reports | Not posted yet |
| 5 | Public comment on items not on the agenda | Not posted yet |
| 6 | Board vacancies: one at-large, one District 1, one District 5 and one youth seat | Not posted yet |
| 7.b | Approve the August and September monthly expenditure reports | Not posted yet |
| 7.c | Neighborhood Purpose Grant of up to $1,000 to Immaculate Heart Community for a Lunch and Learn program | Not posted yet |
| 7.d | Approve the council's voting model for its 2027 election | Not posted yet |
| 7.e.i-ii | Meeting space at St. Paul's Commons for $150 a meeting and at Echo Park Recreation Center for $30 after 9 p.m. | Not posted yet |
| 7.f | Move the council's website from Wix to WordPress, up to $200 a year for hosting and domain | Not posted yet |
| 8 | New Emergency Preparedness Event ad hoc committee, committee changes, officer and liaison selections | Not posted yet |
| 9-11 | Future agenda items, board member comments and adjournment | Not posted yet |
Council files on other pages
- CF 25-0207: Los Angeles City Council, Aug. 12 · Homelessness and Health Committee, Oct. 14 · Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, Oct. 7 · North Hollywood Northeast Neighborhood Council, Oct. 21 · Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council Executive Committee meeting, Oct. 26 · Northridge West Neighborhood Council, Nov. 3 · Palms Neighborhood Council, Nov. 4 · Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, Nov. 4 and 2 more