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Council members Sanabria and Martiz at different points mention "innocent until proven guilty". Sanabria said that this is standard in his experience having been called into an investigation at a non-profit he was employed at.

Council member Macias attempts to make a comment on record and is called out of order by Mayor Flores.
Despite being called out of order and legal counsel stating she is not allowed to comment on this item she proceeds to say she is not for this item "This is gonna cost the community members money"

The third item is in regards to the recent city scandal District Attorney investigation "Dirty Pond".
The city manager, council members Martinez and Macias are asked to leave the chamber as they were all included in the list of persons who were served and are being investigated.

They have asked community development director Louis Morales to look into streamlining the permitting process and how housing development is unfolding in the city.

The council approved the update. With questions about permitting and housing.

The following agenda item addresses the community development department's 2025 General Plan annual progress report.

Council member Sanabria makes a point of order that Council member Macias continues yo use her mobile device during the meeting and cites issues with the brown act.

Council members generally accept that the city did not appropriately seek to understand the community that would be impacted and Sanabria motions for the street to be restored to original lanes. Motion passes unanimously.

Council member Martiz suggested exploring pedestrian oriented solutions to alleviate traffic as well such as bike lanes.

Council member Sanabria has asked to express mor creative ways to address the issues that would not negatively impact small businesses.

According to Lopez there are no major strings attached to the funding from Metro. He clarified that every city is free to determine how they will address the issue of congestion.

There will be a parking study planned in the future and the public works director is suggesting revisiting the project and attaching this to a future project such as the southeast gateway line.

One of the possibilities is a window of hours from 4-7pm no parking solution.
They can petition Metro to make a change to how they address traffic congestion.

Public works director Gerardo Lopez states that Slauson can be restored to it's original state while the city looks into alternative traffic congestion solutions.

As council comes back into session they motion and approve moving the emergency agenda item to the top of the agenda

After approving the motion to add the emergency agenda item the council went into closed session.

Legal deemed that appropriate given that the scheduled street stripping of the new lanes that would eliminate parking on the west bound side of the street is happening tomorrow.

Council spoke back and forth with the public works the city manager and the legal counsel culminating in council adding an emergency agenda item to address the Slauson street project tonight.

These comments are on regards to a project that began back in 2019 to award the city of HP funds somewhere around $8M to address traffic congestion along Slauson Ave. The public works director stated that this is in collaboration with Metro to alleviate traffic coming and going from the 710.

One business owner is now having problems with neighboring businesses who have parking lots. Customers of businesses without lots are taking spaces from other businesses.

All subsequent speakers that submitted cards are small business owners along Slauson Avenue who are having numerous issues with new parking restrictions that have gone into effect.

In his words "people only start living once they have kids."
He also said without owning property or a business you aren't paying taxes into the city and you can't be as invested in caring for the city.
To clarify, at least 2 / 5 members of the current council have children at least 1 owns property.

First commenter is an older man who gave comment in Spanish. He made some complaints about the balance of the current council. The major point he makes is that if people don't own property or have kids in the city then they are not truly invested in the community.

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I'm live posting from Huntington Park city council meeting.
There are six comment cards according to the city clerk so let's get into it!
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Yes, LA Fire Dept. is understaffed. Would more money save us? Even with millions more, LAFD would struggle to contain fires under such extreme conditions.

Yes, LA Fire Dept. is understaffed. Would more money save us?

Even with millions more, LAFD would struggle to contain fires under such extreme conditions.

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