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Council Shutdown Occurs After Disgraced Council Members Won’t Resign
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Council Shutdown Occurs After Disgraced Council Members Won’t Resign

Maxim Elramsisy, California Black MediaOctober 20, 2022

Last week, a recording anonymously posted on the social media site Reddit rocked the Los Angeles City Council.  On the recording, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Hererra, City Council President Nury Martinez (District 6), and City Council members Kevin de León (District 14) and Gilbert Cedillo (District 1) can be heard discussing redistricting using crass terms and divisive, racist language.

Nine Councilmembers Stand Strong in Support of Heather Hutt Appointment 
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Nine Councilmembers Stand Strong in Support of Heather Hutt Appointment 

Danny J. Bakewell, Jr., Executive Editor and Cora Jackson-Fossett, Managing EditorSeptember 1, 2022

Despite the hundreds of Council District 10 constituents who showed up at the Los Angeles City Council Meeting on Aug. 30 wearing t-shirts with slogans like “Black Women Are Watching,” “Hutt is the Voice & Vote We Need, NOW!” and numerous other slogans, a hand full of councilmembers maneuvered to delay the vote to appoint Heather Hutt as the interim councilmember for CD 10. 

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CITY COUNCIL APPROVES LA’S FIRST PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PLAN $8.5 million to go to nine LA neighborhoods

Sentinel News ServiceDecember 10, 2021

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a plan from the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department (LA Civil Rights) to roll out the city’s first participatory budgeting pilot program. The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgement of Institutional Racism, or LA REPAIR, will give nine communities impacted by high rates of poverty, COVID-19, pollution and other factors the decision-making power to allocate more than $8.5 million in city funds.