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La Puente council approves minutes and consent calendar; residents press for fireworks enforcement and animal-control fixes
Summary
The council approved the previous meeting minutes and the consent calendar. Residents urged action on illegal fireworks that disrupt neighborhoods and recounted delays in sheriff response; a roaming rooster was reported captured after staff and council contacts intervened.
The La Puente City Council approved the minutes of the previous meeting and the Successor Agency consent calendar by voice vote after a motion and second; council members present recorded affirmative votes and the presiding official declared both motions passed.
During public comment, Michelle Giancoco, who said she has lived in the neighborhood for more than 60 years, urged the council to address pervasive illegal fireworks, describing explosions that leave debris and terrify pets and residents late into the night. "It is so bad, I can't leave my house or even walk outside without debris landing on me," she said, and asked the council to create a dedicated illegal-fireworks patrol and implement fines.
Giancoco also described delayed sheriff response to a 2- or 3-year-old child wandering the streets on July 3, 2024, and contrasted that with a rapid fire department response to a drunk-driver call. She recounted a roaming rooster that was ultimately captured after council contacts intervened, and thanked staff for follow-up.
Council members and staff acknowledged the concerns. The mayor said the city has discussed illegal-fireworks enforcement in prior years, that staff has pursued sellers before the Fourth of July and that the council is "going to be implementing something." Staff later thanked the council for approving shelter-related consent items that will enable staff to accelerate services.
Votes recorded in the transcript for the motion to approve minutes list affirmative responses from the presiding official and council members; the motion passed. The consent calendar motion was similarly seconded and declared passed; the meeting did not include a roll-call tally of individual votes in standard form during the consent calendar announcement, but the mayor verbally confirmed the motion passed.
