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Council directed agencies to produce a detailed homelessness budget breakdown, advanced multiple housing and land-use actions, approved street-lighting maintenance hearings, and authorized several funding transfers and grant actions.
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The Council asked city budget and housing staff to produce a single, public breakdown of all homelessness spending and to update it quarterly so residents can see where money is going. The meeting also moved forward planning and funding steps for housing projects (including One San Pedro), set hearings and assessments for several street lighting districts, approved overtime and fund transfers for street-lighting and transit-shelter work, and accepted a federal grant to fund a trauma resiliency program. Two liability settlements were authorized in closed session to resolve pending claims.
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- INSTRUCTED the City Administrative Officer (CAO), Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), and Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD), in coordination with LAHSA, to report to Council within 60 days and quarterly thereafter with a single, comprehensive breakdown of the City's homelessness budget (funding sources, expenditures, underspends, and program-level detail).
- AUTHORIZED the CAO to enter a technical assistance contract with The Cloudburst Group (via use of an existing contract) for HUD entitlement program support for a one-year term, not to exceed $75,000.
- ADOPTED first consideration ordinances of intention setting June 24, 2025 hearings for multiple street lighting maintenance districts (examples include Cahuenga/Kling, Figueroa/Patrice Place, Barry/Mississippi, and others) with annual assessment amounts noted in the Bureau of Street Lighting reports.
- CONTINUED multiple land-use and permit items and advanced One San Pedro actions: Council found the project was assessed in the previously certified EIR and adopted related findings, starting the zone/plan change process to allow the proposed redevelopment and up to 1,553 dwelling units and associated commercial/open-space components.
- APPROVED Budget/Finance transfers and authorizations including: transfer and appropriation of $200,000 to the Bureau of Street Lighting for overtime to support accelerated transit shelter installations; authorization to disencumber/reappropriate up to $512,205 for the CleanLA Jobs Program; and various small event funding transfers for City Hall illumination and recognitions.
- RECEIVED and AUTHORIZED acceptance of a $1,000,000 SAMHSA ReCAST grant through the City Attorney's office to fund community resiliency programming, and related establishment of grant accounts and transfers for salary and overtime reimbursements.
- CONSIDERED transportation items including the LADOT peak-hour lanes evaluation (Council adopted LADOT recommendations on peak-hour lanes overall) and continued consideration of specific no-left-turn signage at South Sycamore/Obama (item continued for further action).
- AUTHORIZED closed-session settlement actions: up to $500,000 in settlement authority for Jane Doe v. Juan Carlos Ramirez (CF 25-0299) and up to $375,000 for Deshawn Seward v. City of Los Angeles (CF 25-0306), with related Controller transfers to liability payout accounts.
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