Budget and Finance Commitee

JOURNAL – BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE Tuesday, September 2, 2025 ROOM 340, CITY HALL - 2:00 PM 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER KATY YAROSLAVSKY, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER BOB BLUMENFIELD COUNCILMEMBER HEATHER HUTT COUNCILMEMBER TIM McOSKER COUNCILMEMBER EUNISSES HERNANDEZ (Mandy Morales - Legislative Assistant - (323) 439-2346 or mandy.morales@lacity.org) Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com The audio for this meeting is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar. Additional information regarding Committee procedures provided at the end of this agenda. Spanish language interpretation is available at all Council and Committee meetings. Interpretation services in additional languages are available upon request, at no cost. Please submit your request to clerk.interpretation@lacity.org as soon as possible to allow time for scheduling. You will receive a confirmation reply if an interpreter is available. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) 25-0600-S45 City Administrative Officer reports relative to Fiscal Year 2025-26 appropriations limit. Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted  APPROVED City Administrative Officer (CAO) report dated 08-28-25 and RECEIVE and FILE the CAO report dated 07-28-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (2) 25-0874 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 First Construction Projects Report. (This matter referred to the Government Operations and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Debt Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted. CONCURRED with Government Operations Committee action of 08-19-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (3) 25-0725 CD 7 L.A. for Kids Steering Committee report relative to authorizing the Department of Recreation and Parks to submit a Work Plan to the County of Los Angeles Regional Park and Open Space District under the Measure A Annual Allocation Program for the Sunland Dog Park Project. (This matter referred to the Arts, Parks, Libraries, and Community Enrichment and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: No Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Arts, Parks, Libraries, and Community Enrichment Committee action of 08-12-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (4) 25-0933  City Attorney and City Administrative Officer reports relative to authority to accept the grant funding of $317,543 from the California State Department of Industrial Relations for the 2024-25 Workers’ Rights Protection Enforcement Grant (WREG) Program for a performance period from August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2025. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED City Administrative Officer report dated 08-25-25 and City Attorney report dated 08-13-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (5) 22-1481 Board of Police Commissioners and City Administrative Officer reports relative to the Fiscal Year 2022 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Program – Training and Constitutional Policing Demonstration Project 12-month no-cost extension. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (3) Yes; (1) No: Hernandez. Absent: Yaroslavsky (6) 22-1481-S1 Board of Police Commissioners and City Administrative Officer reports relative to the Fiscal Year 2022 Body-Worn Camera Policy and Implementation Grant Program – Digital Evidence Management and Integration Demonstration Project 12-month no-cost extension. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes  Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (3) Yes; (1) No: Hernandez. Absent: Yaroslavsky (7) 25-0034 Board of Police Commissioners and City Administrative Officer reports relative to the retroactive application and acceptance of the 2024 Deoxyribonucleic Acid Capacity Enhancement and Backlog Reduction Program grant in the amount of $1,995,862.00. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (8) 21-1365 City Administrative Officer reports and Communication from the Mayor relative to the request for authority to extend the performance period for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Regional Catastrophic Preparedness Grant and amend Contract No. C-1483081 with Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes  Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (9) 23-1290 Board of Fire Commissioners and City Administrative Officer reports relative to the continuation of the Regional Urban Search and Rescue Task Force Nine and the Governor's Office of Emergency Services Mobilization Agreement with the Los Angeles Fire Department. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted. CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (10) 25-0594 City Administrative Officer Report relative to the acceptance of the 2024 Federal Emergency Management Agency Cooperative Agreement Grant Award for the Urban Search and Rescue Task Force of the Los Angeles Fire Department. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (11) 25-0612 City Administrative Officer report and Communication from the Mayor relative to acceptance of the Fiscal Year 2023 State Homeland Security Program grant in the amount of $274,000. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (12) 25-0785 Board of Police Commissioners and City Administrative Officer reports relative to the retroactive application to and acceptance of the 2024 Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Program Grant. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (13) 21-0821 Office of Finance reports relative to an escheatment of $1,122,714.74 from the Unclaimed Monies Seized Incidental to Arrest Trust Fund (Fund No. 7772 UMSIATF) to the City’s General Fund. Fiscal Impact Statement: No  Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Office of Finance revised report dated 08-14-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (14) 16-0358-S1 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Tenth Amendment to Contract No. C-129255 between the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide law enforcement services for the transit system's infrastructure, bus, rail lines, and ridership. (This matter referred to the Public Safety and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted TIME LIMIT FILE - SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - SEPTEMBER 30, 2025) CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee action of 08-20-25 - (3) Yes; (1) No: Hernandez. Absent: Yaroslavsky (15) 25-0896 Department of Building and Safety report relative to a refund claim filed by Wisteria Warner Center CCRC LLC, for the project located at 5500 North Canoga Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA 91367. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Department of Building and Safety report dated 06-09-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (16) 18-0916-S1  CD 5 City Attorney report relative to a request for Attorney fees, pursuant to the ruling in Friends of Westwanda Drive v. City of Los Angeles et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 20STCP03490 (Council District 5). Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED the City Attorney report dated 08-05-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (17) 25-0975 Los Angeles Department of Transportation report relative to the Fiscal Year 2025-26 State of Good Repair Program grant application and authority for the purchase and installation of electrical charging infrastructure at the LADOT Washington Bus Yard. (This matter referred to the Transportation and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted. AMENDED the Department of Transportation report dated 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (18) 20-1015-S4 Los Angeles Department of Transportation report relative to accepting the Fiscal Year 2025-26 annual allocation of Senate Bill 1 State Transit Assistance transit funding. (This matter referred to the Transportation and Budget and Finance Committees.) Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted. AMENDED the Department of Transportation report dated 08-20-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (19) 25-0885 Motion (Raman - Yaroslavsky) relative to instructing the City Administrative Officer, with the assistance of the Chief Legislative Analyst and relevant departments, to report on all City projects, programs, and services that could be impacted by H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act); and related matters. (This item is referred to Civil Right, Equity, Immigration, Aging and Disability and Budget and Finance Committees.) Community Impact Statement: None submitted CONCURRED with Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee action of 08-19-25 - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (20) 25-0029 Office of Finance report and City Administrative Officer to report relative to a discussion of a variety of potential options for increasing General Fund Tax revenue, and related matters. Community Impact Statement: Yes For: North Westwood Neighborhood Council APPROVED Office of Finance report recommendations with additional insturctions for reporting; City Administrative Officer to report to the Budget and Finance Committee - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (21) 24-1456 Office of Finance report relative to a review of the City’s Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT), other municipalities’ TOT practices, closure of TOT collection and remittance loopholes, and maximizing TOT revenues in preparation for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Community Impact Statement: None submitted APPROVED Office of Finance report recommendations with additional insturctions for reporting - (4) Yes; (0) No. Absent: Yaroslavsky (22) 25-0951 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal  counsel relative to the case entitled David Keliher v. William McMorran, et al. / David Keliher v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case Nos. 23STCV30994 and 23STCV11854. (This matter arises from a fall incident on January 30, 2022, near 3427 Griffith Park Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (23) 25-0948 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Angela Cendy Betancourt v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 23STCV31035. (This matter arises from a trip and fall incident, allegedly caused by a dangerous condition on January 30, 2023, at or near 1438 Angelus Avenue, Los Angeles, California.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (24) 25-0953 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Kevin Jinks v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 23STCV10910. (This matter arises from a trip and fall incident on August 23, 2022, on the sidewalk at 1107 West 61st, in the City of Los Angeles.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (25) 25-0954 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Nosrat Zinati v. City of Los Angeles, et. al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 22VECV02242. (This matter arises from a trip and fall incident on December 4, 2021, on a sidewalk located at 5255 Zelzah Avenue, in Encino, California.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (26) 25-0955 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Robert Papazian Jr. v. City of Los  Angeles, Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 22STCV13554. (This matter arises from a May 14, 2021, trip and fall incident at the intersection of South Culver Place and South Vista Del Mar in Playa Del Rey.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (27) 25-0949 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Adrienne Tripp, et al. v. the City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 21STCV41857. (This matter arises from a September 27, 2025 trip and fall incident at 15049 Burbank Boulevard, in Sherman Oaks.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (28) 25-0956 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Reina Del Carmen Jovel, et al. v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 23STCV12526. (This matter arises from the June 30, 2021, incident in which the LAPD Bomb Squad detonated explosive material.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (29) 25-0952 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Armando Corona Trejo, et al., v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 24STCV00612. (This matter arises from a vehicle versus vehicle traffic collision on October 11, 2022, on State Route 91 Eastbound, east of the Coal Canyon Road exit in Orange County.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (30) 25-0950 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section No. 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled John Castellano v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 22STCV31176.  (This matter arises from a vehicle versus vehicle traffic accident that occurred on December 16, 2021, at the intersection of Olympic Boulevard and Rimpau Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA.) Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. (31) 21-1240 The Committee may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled City of Los Angeles v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., et al.,, United States District Court Case No. 2:18-CV- 3712. [This matter involves national settlements with Purdue Pharma L.P., the Sackler family, Alvogen, Inc., Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Inc. and Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc.] Budget and Finance Committee discussed the matter in Closed Session. If you challenge this Committee's action(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at or prior to, the public hearing. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. Materials relative to items on this agenda can be obtained from the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System, at lacouncilfile.com by entering the Council File number listed immediately following the item number (e.g., 00-0000). Telecommunication Relay Services Telephone communication is one of the most important forms of communication in society today. Due to advancements in technology, telephone devices have evolved with new services and capabilities. Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability are following these trends and are rapidly migrating to more advanced telecommunications methods, both for peer-to-peer and third-party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available?There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the CA is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello. This is the relay service .. . " when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard-of-hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit theFCC's Disability Rights Office website.