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The Council met May 19, 2026 and took actions across housing, labor, transportation, public safety, and budget matters including approving a business improvement district assessment, advancing wage and benefit changes for airport and hotel workers, authorizing bond-related TEFRA actions for education facilities, and directing several fund transfers for facilities and repairs.
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Decisions from this meeting affect local services, housing planning, worker pay rules, street and park projects, and enforcement in certain public spaces. The Council approved changes to how some affordable housing sites and City-owned properties are evaluated, moved forward an ordinance updating wages and benefits for airport and hotel workers, and directed funding and projects for parks, emergency slope repair, and street safety. It also asked the City Administrative Officer to report costs tied to a recent plane crash and instructed relaxed parking enforcement near polling places during elections.
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- Adopted ordinance and approved advisory board to levy the Wilshire Center Business Improvement District special assessment for the 2026 fiscal year.
- Received and filed or continued multiple nuisance-abatement lien hearings and approved a motion to waive one Spaulding Avenue case's fees.
- Held TEFRA hearings and authorized conduit bond actions for up to $40,000,000 for educational facility financing (Swarthmore/La Cruz) and for up to $35,000,000 for a 78-unit affordable housing project (Hoffman Street).
- Granted a Public Convenience or Necessity finding for Whole Foods Market (3443 S. Sepulveda) to sell off-site alcohol.
- Requested the City Administrative Officer, in consultation with DWP, LAPD and LAFD, to report total City costs related to the April 20, 2026 Pacoima plane crash.
- Assigned the City-owned Mangrove Building (432 E. Temple St.) to the consolidated Community Investment Department and authorized related fund transfers and MICLA financing reauthorizations for tenant improvements.
- Approved the Revised Asset Evaluation Framework for identifying sites for permanent and interim housing and transferred the Affordable Housing Liaison Unit (AHLU) function to the Los Angeles Housing Department with two temporary positions funded through June 30, 2026.
- Initiated street vacation proceedings for an alley adjacent to Wilshire Boulevard/New Hampshire Avenue and directed the Bureau of Engineering to investigate feasibility.
- Instructed the Department of Transportation to relax parking enforcement near polling sites during upcoming Primary and General Elections.
- Adopted several motions to transfer and appropriate funds for projects including $447,455 for an emergency slope repair account and multi‑million dollar transfers for the Cesar Chavez (Sheldon Arleta) Recreation Complex Phase III C project and Mangrove improvements.
- Adopted a resolution designating multiple locations in Council District 6 for enforcement under LAMC Section 41.18 (limits on sitting/lying/sleeping and storing property in public right-of-way) and authorized posting/ enforcement after required notice periods.
- Amended wage and benefit provisions for airport employees and hotel workers (Council adopted a revised ordinance motion; ordinance held for second reading on May 26, 2026) establishing stepped minimum wages and scheduled health benefit payment increases.
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