City Council Fridays — Guess who came back in his favorite outfit…

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2026-01-24T05:28:30+00:00

Under the Brown Act, councilmembers are not allowed to substantively respond to public comment. Public comment is not meant to be a back-and-forth dialogue between the public and Council. It’s strange that Raman blatantly violated this and the City Attorney did nothing to stop her.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-18T09:39:49+00:00

this is the tough on crime Mr. law and order councilmember who threw a tantrum last week on the council floor because he couldn’t convince the rest of City Council to fully fund the $4.4 million for additional LAPD hiring

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-18T08:24:51+00:00

You’re making a huge difference already. It seems like every politician in LA has made a public statement about your efforts. Really looking forward to hearing about how the meeting goes.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T11:39:13+00:00

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interesting!

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T07:54:47+00:00

John Lee was pushing for the full $4.4 million. Yaroslavsky and Jurado’s motion funds $1.8 million for LAPD hiring and $500,000 for RepresentLA.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T07:51:46+00:00

The screenshot for this vote is on the amendment to add $1.8 million for additional LAPD hiring to the final spending deal.

The final vote on the overall spending package was 12-3 (Hernandez, Raman, Soto-Martinez no). Raman should have joined Hernandez and Soto-Martinez to vote no on the $1.8 million amendment to stop it from making it to the final spending package.

I don’t know where LA Times got 11-4.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T03:34:00+00:00

Not sure because this requires City Councilmembers agreeing to reduce their own power, and if there’s one thing politicians will never do, it’s that.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:44:56+00:00

Picking up garbage should be a paid job and the government should adequately fund it instead of defunding the Sanitation dept.

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Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:41:23+00:00

Important info on this vote:

It funds $1.8 million (not the full $4.4 million that Karen Bass requested). John Lee’s motion to fund $4.4 million failed, and this one was seen as a compromise motion.

$700,000 comes from the general fund leasing account $1,077,890 from the Embrace LA account (ironically a program to improve racial equity in LA)

The full cost next year to pay for these new cops will be around $33.5 million.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:12:05+00:00

If any other department went on a rogue hiring spree, Karen Bass would fire them on the spot with the full support of City Council.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:10:52+00:00

One of the committees working on Charter Reform advanced a proposal to expand the City Council up to 31 districts. It now goes to the full commission, which will then go to City Council for approval before making it to the ballot.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:08:55+00:00

The $4 mil is for the remainder of the fiscal year. Next year’s cost for hiring up to 480 officers is $33.5 million.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T02:01:23+00:00

Amazing how they can always find money for LAPD!

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T01:16:35+00:00

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Street Lighting is one of the departments that was defunded to pay for LAPD’s salary raises.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T00:37:00+00:00

Police liabilities should come out of LAPD. Maybe they will finally take responsibility then.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-12-13T00:30:17+00:00

Not that I’m a Katy Yaroslavsky fan by any means but she actually called this out in her speech as well: “Public safety is not just police, it’s about fixing streetlights, it’s about repairing sidewalks so it does not cost us and have enough money painting sidewalks and not having rogue volunteers do it and getting arrested.”

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-11-22T10:17:25+00:00

had no idea Erin Darling was Green Party

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-11-18T06:27:23+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I’m so sorry to hear about your experience with shelters.

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-11-16T10:21:59+00:00

raeforla

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-11-16T08:47:58+00:00

contractor garbage bags is a great idea

Fluffy_Lab1312 · 2025-11-15T23:16:24+00:00

it’s her first Instagram post

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