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North Westwood Neighborhood Council meeting, September 2, 2026

September 2, 2026, 7 p.m. · Updated October 2, 2026

From the minutes: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council's board voted 14-0 on Sept. 2, 2026, with one member recused, to send a letter asking its City Council member to publicly call on UCLA to halt the closure of the university's two campus childcare centers, and passed Community Impact Statements supporting a report on homeless outreach and housing placement during the 2028 Games, 12-0, and the City's cost-recovery agreement with LA28, according to the council's minutes. On the LA28 statement the minutes print the result as 13-0 and their roll-call table marks 14 members yes. An amended statement on concrete barriers for protected bike lanes passed on the consent calendar without objection. "For" statements on the LA28 agreement and the bike lane barriers were filed on the council files Sept. 21.

Outcomes for the September 2, 2026 meeting of the North Westwood Neighborhood Council come from its posted minutes.

Outcomes come from the minutes in the council’s agenda documents folder for this meeting: a copy of the agenda with notes and a roll-call table typed under each voted item. They do not say whether the board has approved them. Seventeen board members attended, two of them by Zoom. President Josh Trifunovic was absent, and Vice President Andrew Lewis presided from 7:16 p.m. to 9:37 p.m. (minutes). Tallies are yes, no, abstain. Where the printed result and the roll-call table differ, this page follows the table and gives both.

8. Letter on UCLA’s campus childcare closures

• What it asks: Endorse a letter from Bruin Parenting Scholars backing a petition, which the agenda says 1,471 people signed, asking UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to pause steps toward closing the centers the agenda calls ECE and UPNS and to explore alternatives. The agenda says the two serve more than 300 UCLA families (agenda).
• Coverage: LAist reported that UCLA told families the two centers will close at the end of the 2026-27 academic year because “the program is not sustainable.” The Los Angeles Times also covered the closures.
• What happened: Approved 14-0 on a motion by Kristian Suazo, seconded by Elsa Duval. Melissa Nessman Roberts recused herself, and the two members attending by Zoom did not vote. The board amended the letter to address the area’s City Council member instead of the chancellor, to ask her to publicly call on UCLA to halt all steps toward closure, and to link the petition (minutes).

11. Statement on Olympic-period homeless encampment outreach

• What it asks: A Community Impact Statement on CF 15-0989-S72, a motion by Council member Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Katy Yaroslavsky, on encampment resolution and housing placement for the 2028 Games (agenda).
• Who brought it: The agenda says the statement “passed without objection 4-0-0 (1 committee member absent)” and does not name the committee (agenda). At the meeting Patrick Babajanian reported that the Olympics Committee had met and had a statement on the agenda, and he introduced the item (minutes).
• Earlier action: The agenda links the same draft statement as the Aug. 5 agenda did. Minutes of Aug. 5 record that the board approved it 13-0 at that meeting (Aug. 5 minutes). No North Westwood statement was on CF 15-0989-S72 as of Oct. 1, 2026.
• What happened: Passed 12-0, with three members out of the room. The statement supports the motion and asks to see what the City’s report says on outreach, housing placement and encampment resolution during the Games (minutes).

12. Statement on the City’s cost-recovery agreement with LA28

• What it asks: A Community Impact Statement on CF 15-0989-S68, a motion by Council member Marqueece Harris-Dawson, seconded by Ysabel Jurado and Traci Park, to have City staff finish the Enhanced City Resources Master Agreement with LA28. The agenda says the statement passed a committee 4-0-0 with one member absent and was continued from a prior committee meeting (agenda).
• What happened: Passed on a motion by Patrick Babajanian, seconded by Connor Webb. The minutes print the result as 13-0; their roll-call table marks 14 members yes and one absent. The statement supports the motion and its aim of full cost recovery. A board member asked that it say LA28, not the City, should create the contingency fund (minutes).
• Filed statement: A “For” statement was filed Sept. 21. It supports full cost recovery for City public safety, transportation, sanitation and other services for the Games. The filing does not give the board vote or the date of the board’s action (CIS).

17. Concrete barriers for protected bike lanes

• What it asks: An amended version of a statement the board passed 10-4-0 on May 6, 2026, on CF 26-0600-S105, a budget recommendation titled “Class 4 Bikeyways / Plastic Bollard to Concrete / Convert to Other Delineators” (agenda).
• Who brought it: The Transportation, Environment and Public Space Committee, 5-0-0 on Aug. 20 (agenda).
• What happened: Passed without objection as part of the consent calendar, which no member asked to change (minutes).
• Filed statement: A statement marked “For” on CF 26-0600-S105 and “Neutral” on CF 26-0600-S21 was filed Sept. 21. The filing does not give the board vote or the date of the board’s action (CIS).

Other votes

• Westwood Village business update (7): Tabled without objection; the Business Improvement District’s representative is due at the next meeting (minutes).
• UCLA Block Party (9): The board approved tabling at the Sept. 20 event with an activity to sign people up for its newsletter and Instagram, 12-0-1 (minutes).
• Student consulting group (10): The board approved a pro bono report by a UCLA student group on raising stakeholder engagement, 13-0 (minutes).
• July expenditure report (13): Passed. The minutes print the result as 13-0; the roll-call table marks 13 members yes and one abstaining (minutes).
• Branded tent (14): Up to $300 from the outreach budget passed 14-0 (minutes).
• Outside bodies (15): Elsa Duval was named alternate to the Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance and representative to the STC4All working group. No committee changes were made (minutes).
• Consent calendar (16 to 19): The Aug. 5 minutes, the bike lane statement and the re-filing of earlier statements on street projects passed together without objection (minutes).

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