WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:20.780 On this week's episode: LA County's final budget, a Los Angeles City Council vote writing parts of the Mayor's immigration directive into city law, and Pasadena's new plan for North Fair Oaks and its Black Legacy District. 2 00:00:24.019 --> 00:00:28.379 Five minutes on what the LA area's local governments decided this week. 3 00:00:28.979 --> 00:00:42.007 The county's Board of Supervisors opened Tuesday with a moment of silence for the five people killed in Chatsworth in mid-September, two in a Metro bus crash and three in the news helicopter crash that followed. 4 00:00:42.007 --> 00:00:45.880 And Pasadena's City Council proclaimed October Walktober and Pedestrian Safety Month. 5 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:59.259 This episode was produced with AI from the episodes of the shows that cover each of the area's governments, which are made from the public recordings of the meetings. Links to every source are in the show notes. 6 00:01:02.498 --> 00:01:12.068 Our top story: on Tuesday, the county's Board of Supervisors adopted its final budget for this fiscal year, fifty-four point two billion dollars, in unanimous votes. 7 00:01:12.068 --> 00:01:13.131 Bigger than June's? 8 00:01:13.131 --> 00:01:32.270 Chief Executive Officer Joseph Nicchitta said it's three point nine billion dollars more, mostly one-time money. It funds the county's second annual one point two billion dollar payment on childhood sexual assault settlements, and cuts a net two hundred fifty budgeted positions, including a net one hundred ninety-five vacant Public Health jobs. 9 00:01:32.270 --> 00:01:48.218 Supervisor Kathryn Barger warned of an estimated drop of more than six hundred sixty million dollars in federal revenue for the public hospital system, and Nicchitta said Health Services projects its reserves will run out during the 2028-29 fiscal year. 10 00:01:51.458 --> 00:02:02.786 Next, the Los Angeles City Council. On Wednesday it voted fourteen to nothing to write parts of Mayor Karen Bass's Executive Directive Seventeen on immigration enforcement into city law. 11 00:02:02.786 --> 00:02:05.130 What was the case for it? 12 00:02:05.130 --> 00:02:20.365 Speaking for it, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez argued that no city land should be a staging area for federal immigration raids, city tax dollars shouldn't pay for surveillance of residents, and contractors profiting from family separation should be held accountable. 13 00:02:20.365 --> 00:02:22.319 Where does it go now? 14 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:39.898 Straight to the Mayor, for the Mayor's approval. A day earlier, the council voted to support Assembly Bill twenty-four sixty-five, which would bar state subsidies to companies that run private detention facilities or contract with immigration enforcement agencies. Thirteen members voted for it. 15 00:02:43.137 --> 00:02:55.431 Our last top story: Pasadena's City Council on Tuesday adopted the Fair Oaks Orange Grove Specific Plan, seven to nothing, with Mayor Victor Gordo recused, citing a home near the plan area. 16 00:02:55.431 --> 00:02:57.352 What does the plan do? 17 00:02:57.352 --> 00:03:20.404 It sets what can be built around North Fair Oaks Avenue and Orange Grove Boulevard, and names North Fair Oaks, from Washington Boulevard to the city's northern edge, the Black Legacy District. Twenty-four people spoke, nearly all in support, describing a once-thriving center of Black-owned businesses and churches worn down by redlining, urban renewal and freeway construction. 18 00:03:20.404 --> 00:03:21.557 And next steps? 19 00:03:21.557 --> 00:03:28.857 Staff will look for money for banners and decorative crosswalks, and proposed street medians go back for transportation review. 20 00:03:32.096 --> 00:03:42.373 Now a quick trip around the area. Pasadena's council also approved a police drone policy on Tuesday, seven to one, for SWAT use only, with any testing done outside the city. 21 00:03:42.373 --> 00:03:54.970 In Burbank, the Planning Commission voted five to nothing on Monday to recommend a scaled-back update to the Media District Specific Plan. The City Council takes it up at a hearing staff said is October twenty-seventh. 22 00:03:54.970 --> 00:04:03.921 Burbank's City Council on Tuesday voted five to nothing to have staff return in December with options for waiving film permit fees in a one-year pilot. 23 00:04:03.921 --> 00:04:18.176 And the county's Board of Supervisors passed, four to nothing, a motion on homeless families. It asks County Counsel to analyze motel voucher practices that force families to check out or move rooms, and the homeless services department to report within sixty days. 24 00:04:21.415 --> 00:04:30.775 That's the week. Each government's own show has the full story. Spot an error? There's a link on this episode's page, and corrections are read on air. 25 00:04:30.775 --> 00:04:34.575 That's the week around the LA area. See you next Sunday.