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Watts Neighborhood Council agenda, October 13, 2026

October 13, 2026, 6 p.m. · Updated October 10, 2026

On the agenda: The Watts Neighborhood Council's board meets in person on Oct. 13, 2026, at 6 p.m. at the Watts Senior Center, with no online option (agenda). The agenda lists up to $7,000 for webmaster services from Moore Business Results LLC, a Neighborhood Purpose Grant of up to $5,000 to The Lotus Garden Foundation, up to $7,000 for co-sponsored community events and four other spending items, $26,719.44 in all (our sum), plus Community Impact Statements on three council files: converting turf on City street medians (CF 26-1332), a Measure FD implementation plan for the Fire Department (CF 26-1330) and simplified processing for new condominium projects (CF 26-1329). It also lists votes to fill four vacant board seats. The agenda has 12 numbered items.

Agenda only. As of October 10, 2026, the October 13, 2026 meeting of the Watts Neighborhood Council has not happened yet and nothing on its agenda has been decided. Agendas can change.

The agenda sets the general board meeting for Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Watts Senior Center, 1657 E. Century Blvd., which it marks as a new location, and says no virtual participation option will be available. Public comment is two minutes per speaker. The agenda was posted on Oct. 9 (City agenda index). Item 8.a says the September expenditure report will be reviewed in November because two inventory purchases made in September need a Board Action Certification (agenda). The agenda lists the next board meeting for Nov. 10, 2026, and a Budget and Finance Committee meeting on Zoom for Oct. 22 (agenda).

7.c. Four vacant board seats

• What it asks: Discussion and possible action to fill the Adults, Parents and Caregivers, Area 4, At-Large and Faith-Based Organization representative seats. The roster printed with the agenda shows those four of the council’s 15 seats vacant (agenda).
• Election note: The agenda says the Area 4, Adults, Parents and Caregivers, and Faith-Based Organization seats are in the 2027 election cycle, that an application for those seats “must be 60 days before December 17, 2026 (no later than today’s October 13th General Board Meeting),” that an appointee’s term runs to June 30, 2027, and that the election winner “will be seated for the next 4 years” (agenda).

8.b. Up to $3,250 for office supplies

• What it asks: Office supplies, including $831.15 made up of $224.79 at Amazon and $606.36 at Best Buy; the agenda refers readers to the funding report for details (agenda).
• Money: Up to $3,250, listed as an office expenditure (agenda).

8.c. Up to $3,000 for meeting refreshments

• What it asks: Refreshments for board and committee meetings (agenda).
• Money: Up to $3,000, listed as an office and operational expenditure (agenda).

8.d. Webmaster services, up to $7,000

• What it asks: Approval of webmaster services from Moore Business Results LLC for fiscal year 2027, not to exceed $7,000. Item 8.e asks separately for payment of a $469.44 Moore Business Results invoice (agenda).
• Background: The board’s Sept. 8 agenda listed $1,880.73 to Moore Business Results for invoices (Sept. 8 agenda). The council’s website footer credits the site to Moore Business Results (wattsnc.org).
• Money: Up to $7,000 plus $469.44, both listed as office expenditures (agenda).

8.f. Up to $5,000 grant to The Lotus Garden Foundation

• What it asks: A Neighborhood Purpose Grant to The Lotus Garden Foundation; the agenda points to a recommendation in the Budget and Finance report (agenda).
• Background: The Sept. 8 board agenda listed a grant of up to $5,000 to “The Lotus Foundation” (Sept. 8 agenda), and the Sept. 24 joint committee agenda listed it for committee review (Sept. 24 agenda).
• Money: Up to $5,000 (agenda).

8.g. Up to $7,000 for community collaborations

• What it asks: Money for “Community Collaborations where we partner with organizations through co-sponsorship and participating in community events.” The agenda names no events (agenda).
• Money: Up to $7,000, listed as an outreach expenditure (agenda).

8.h. $1,000 for the Day of the Drum and Watts Towers Jazz festivals

• What it asks: Sponsorship of the Friends of Watts Towers Art Center’s “44th Annual Day of the Drum Festival and 49th Annual Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festival” for outreach, tabling, promotional signage and media. The agenda gives no dates (agenda).
• Money: $1,000, listed as an outreach expenditure. Items 8.b through 8.h total up to $26,719.44, our sum (agenda). The City Clerk’s funding dashboard showed a $25,000 allocation plus a $40,680 rollover for 2026-27, with $3,067 spent, as of Oct. 1, 2026 (dashboard).

9.a. Statement on CF 26-1332, median turf conversion

• What it asks: A Community Impact Statement on CF 26-1332. The agenda names a Watts NC statement document for the file but does not print its position (agenda).
• What the file does: The motion says Assembly Bill 1572 bars potable water for irrigating nonfunctional turf on most local government property from Jan. 1, 2027, and that StreetsLA maintains about 10 million square feet of landscaped medians, about 3.6 million of them nonfunctional turf. It instructs StreetsLA, with LADWP, to report in 30 days on the staff needed to assess the medians, the resources for a phased citywide conversion program, an initial list of medians to convert with at least one per Council district, a conversion program with incentives and funding, and what happens to medians that are not converted. It also asks the City Administrative Officer to report on front funding sources and LADWP to confer with the Metropolitan Water District on raising the turf rebate (motion).
• Who brought it: Imelda Padilla, seconded by Bob Blumenfield, on Sept. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1332).
• Where it stands: The file is in the Energy and Environment and Public Works committees. The Public Works Committee scheduled it for Oct. 13, 2026, the same day as this meeting (CF 26-1332; our page on that meeting).
• Neighborhood council positions: The Sylmar Neighborhood Council filed a statement on Sept. 26, 2026, recording a “FOR” vote of 11-0 with six absent on Sept. 24 (CIS). No other statement appears on the file as of Oct. 10, 2026 (CF 26-1332).

9.b. Statement on CF 26-1330, Measure FD implementation plan

• What it asks: A Community Impact Statement on CF 26-1330. The agenda names a Watts NC statement document for the file but does not print its position (agenda).
• What the file does: The motion says voters will consider Measure FD, a half-percent sales tax for the Los Angeles Fire Department, on Nov. 3, 2026. It instructs the Fire Department, with the City Administrative Officer, Chief Legislative Analyst and Personnel Department, to report before Nov. 3 with initial recommendations for a Measure FD Implementation and LAFD Expansion Plan covering staffing, apparatus, station repair and construction, hiring and procurement barriers, a capital plan, and an accountability framework with separate accounting of Measure FD money and quarterly reports. It asks for an update within 60 days if the measure passes and annual updates after that (motion).
• Who brought it: Traci Park, seconded by Imelda Padilla, on Sept. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1330).
• Where it stands: The file is in the Budget and Finance and Public Safety committees, with no hearing scheduled as of Oct. 10, 2026 (CF 26-1330).
• Neighborhood council positions: The Sylmar Neighborhood Council filed a statement on Sept. 26, 2026, recording a “FOR IF Amended” vote of 11-0 with six absent and asking that the tax’s first-year revenue go to building Fire Station 31 in Sylmar (CIS). No other statement appears on the file as of Oct. 10, 2026 (CF 26-1330).

9.c. Statement on CF 26-1329, condominium processing

• What it asks: A Community Impact Statement on CF 26-1329. The agenda names a Watts NC statement document for the file but does not print its position (agenda).
• What the file does: The motion asks City Planning, with the Department of Building and Safety and the Bureau of Engineering, to draft within 30 days an ordinance using the City’s authority under California Government Code Section 66428(b) to set simplified and expedited processing for eligible new-construction condominium and ADU condominium projects, including an administrative procedure to waive parcel, tentative and final map requirements and the removal of duplicate reviews (motion).
• Who brought it: Katy Yaroslavsky, seconded by Marqueece Harris-Dawson and Imelda Padilla, on Sept. 16, 2026 (CF 26-1329).
• Where it stands: The Planning and Land Use Management Committee scheduled the file for Oct. 13, 2026, the same day as this meeting (CF 26-1329).
• Neighborhood council positions: No statement appears on the file as of Oct. 10, 2026 (CF 26-1329).

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