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Palms Neighborhood Council Joint board and Executive Committee meeting, October 28, 2026

October 28, 2026, 7 p.m. · Updated October 29, 2026

On the agenda: The Palms Neighborhood Council's board and Executive Committee were scheduled to hold a joint meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Fire Station 43, 3690 Motor Ave. The agenda listed motions to file a Community Impact Statement supporting CF 26-1513, which asks the City Administrative Officer to report on expanding public toilets, hand washing stations and water spigots citywide, and a neutral statement on CF 26-0600-S55, on lessons learned from neighborhood council elections. It also listed motions to serve as a site coordinator for the 2027 Homeless Count and to form an ad hoc committee on website ADA compliance. The agenda had 16 items. Minutes were not posted on the council's website as of Oct. 29, 2026.

Agenda only. As of October 29, 2026, minutes for the October 28, 2026 meeting of the Palms Neighborhood Council had not been posted. This summary is based on the agenda and does not report what was decided.

The agenda listed Kay Hartman as Executive Committee chair, Katy Macek as vice chair, and Jillian Barndt and Ana Garcia Lima as members. Public comment was two minutes per speaker. The agenda set the next meeting for Monday, Nov. 16, 2026, at 7 p.m. on Zoom (agenda).

IV.a. Closure of the children’s center on Sepulveda

• What it asked: A presentation, discussion and possible motion about the closure of the children’s center on Sepulveda. The agenda did not name the center or say what a motion would ask (agenda).

IV.c. Ad hoc committee on website ADA compliance

• What it asked: A motion to create an ad hoc committee to work on website and social media compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The agenda also asked whether to pay a professional to make the changes or “allow Owen to make them,” as the agenda put it, and listed other website fixes, such as a calendar that defaults to monthly view and better use on phones (agenda).
• Money: The agenda gave no dollar amount (agenda).

IV.d. Site coordinator for the 2027 Homeless Count

• What it asked: A motion to authorize the council to be the site coordinator for the 2027 Homeless Count (agenda).

IV.e. Support for more public toilets and water spigots

• What it asked: A motion to file a Community Impact Statement supporting CF 26-1513 “to increase the number of public hygiene stations (toilets and sinks)” (agenda).
• What the council file does: The Oct. 21, 2026 motion asks the City Administrative Officer, with Street Services, Sanitation, the Department of Water and Power, Metro and the Board of Public Works, to report within 60 days on a citywide expansion of public toilets, hand washing stations and permanent water spigots. It says only 14 automated public toilets were installed under the City’s 2001 street furniture contract, and that four replacement toilets now operate (motion).
• Who brought it: Nithya Raman and Ysabel Jurado moved it, and Tim McOsker seconded it (CF 26-1513).
• What’s next: The motion is pending in the Homelessness and Health Committee and the Public Works Committee. No Community Impact Statements were on the file as of Oct. 26, 2026 (CF 26-1513).

IV.f. Neutral statement on neighborhood council elections

• What it asked: A motion to file a neutral Community Impact Statement on CF 26-0600-S55 “about lessons learned from Neighborhood Council elections” (agenda).
• What the council file does: A budget recommendation adopted by the Council on June 24, 2026 instructs the City Clerk, with the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, to report to the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee comparing in-person, vote-by-mail and hybrid elections and outreach, with an analysis of lessons learned (budget recommendation).
• Neighborhood council positions: The North Westwood Neighborhood Council filed a Community Impact Statement on Sept. 21, 2026 (CF 26-0600-S55).
• What’s next: The City Clerk submitted a report dated Oct. 22, 2026, and it was referred to the Rules, Elections and Intergovernmental Relations Committee the same day. The file lists no committee date (CF 26-0600-S55).

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