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Votes at a glance: Public Safety Committee actions on Sept. 17, 2025
Summary
The committee approved multiple consent items, continued one item to Oct. 1, approved the ReCAST grant, and noted and filed reports on the LAFD alternative‑fuel assessment and the Community Forest Advisory Committee report.
At the Sept. 17 Public Safety Committee meeting, members recorded votes on several agenda items. Highlights and outcomes are listed below; clerk roll calls are shown as recorded in the hearing.
- Consent package: The committee approved items 3, 4, 6 and 7–8, 11 and 13, and 14–15 as a consent package, adopting CAO and Board of Fire Commissioners recommendations where specified. Clerk recorded five ayes (Councilmembers Lee, Price, McOsker, Sotomayor Martinez and Park). Outcome: approved as recommended.
- Item 5 (metal/wire/theft reward program): Continued to meeting of Oct. 1, 2025 on the committee’s request.
- Item 9: Approved the SPA 36 expenditure plan (as recommended).
- Item 10: Approved the department’s revolving training fund budget (as recommended).
- Item 12: Amended CAO recommendation to instruct the CAO to identify funding to keep the 7th Street and Van Nuys LAPD detention facilities open with adequate staff; adopted the CAO recommendations as amended.
- Item 16: Approved the ReCAST (SAMHSA) grant program item (clerk recorded five ayes).
- Item 2: Noted and filed the Los Angeles Fire Department report on equipment and training needed to mitigate electric vehicle fires; committee requested the department include a prioritized list of requested positions and equipment in the 2026–27 budget submittal (clerk recorded five ayes).
- Item 1: Noted and filed the Community Forest Advisory Committee report; the committee directed the Fire Department to report steps needed to implement some or all recommendations and asked the Community Forest Advisory Committee and Fire Department to submit the report to the State Board of Forestry (clerk recorded five ayes).
Roll‑call voting (recorded during meeting): Councilmember Lee — Aye; Councilmember Price — Aye; Councilmember McOsker — Yes; Councilmember Sotomayor Martinez — Yes; Councilmember Park — Yes. Quorum and five affirmative votes recorded where listed.
