Staff announces pet clinics and open pickleball courts as council members report conference takeaways

City staff announced two upcoming pet clinics and new pickleball-court hours during the Hawaiian Gardens City Council meeting on Feb. 26, 2025.

A staff member said the city will hold pet clinics at the Sea Robert Lee Activity Center on March 6 and March 27. The clinics will see cats from 4 to 5 p.m. and dogs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. The staff announcement also said the city’s pickleball courts are open with weekday hours from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 8:30 p.m., and Saturday hours from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Separately, council members reported on recent conferences they attended. Speakers summarized takeaways from the League of Cities and Independent Cities conferences, emphasizing public-safety collaboration, homelessness initiatives and technology. Council members noted discussion of using 988 for nonemergency mental-health or suicide-prevention calls and a county-led approach to a dedicated dispatch team for those calls. They also recounted presentations about limited drone deployments to provide aerial views for law enforcement responses and referenced regional planning connected to upcoming large-scale events in the Los Angeles area.

One council member discussed meeting with regional officials and supervisors (identified in the meeting as Supervisor Janice Hahn and another official named Jenny Sun) about public-safety support and county programs, including trauma-prevention initiatives administered through the county Office of Violence Prevention. Council members said the county has provided resources and that cities are sharing approaches to homelessness response, outreach staffing and cross-agency data collaboration.

No formal council action on the conference items or the community programs was recorded during the meeting; the reports were presented for information.