Energy and Environment Committe

ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2025 - 3:30 PM EDWARD R. ROYBAL BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS SESSION ROOM ROOM 350, CITY HALL 200 NORTH SPRING STREET, LOS ANGELES, CA 90012 MEMBERS: COUNCILMEMBER ADRIN NAZARIAN, CHAIR COUNCILMEMBER KATY YAROSLAVSKY COUNCILMEMBER YSABEL JURADO COUNCILMEMBER NITHYA RAMAN COUNCILMEMBER IMELDA PADILLA (Michael Espinosa - Legislative Assistant - (213) 978-1064 or michael.espinosa@lacity.org) Submit written comment at LACouncilComment.com The audio for Committee meetings is broadcast live on the internet at https://clerk.lacity.gov/calendar. The Committee will take public comment from members of the public in-person only; there will be no public comment by teleconference. Additional information regarding Committee procedures provided at the end of this agenda. Spanish language interpretation is available at all City Council and Committee meetings. SE OFRECE SERVICIO DE TRADUCCIÓN AL ESPAÑOL EN TODAS LAS REUNIONES DEL CONSEJO Y COMITÉ MUNICIPAL. For interpretation services in additional languages and Sign Language Interpreters, at no cost, please contact clerk.interpretation@lacity.org or call (213) 978-1133 and provide the language desired, specific meeting, meeting date, and the number of people in the group. All requests should be submitted with as much advance notice as possible, preferably two business days prior to the meeting you wish to attend for additional language interpretation and five business days for Sign Language Interpretation. We will do our best to accommodate requests with shorter notice, but securing last-minute interpreters or captioners may not always be feasible. MULTIPLE AGENDA ITEM COMMENT GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM(S) (1) ----- Verbal report from the Department of Water and Power relative to Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). (2) 25-1155 CD 8 Motion (Harris-Dawson - Hutt) relative to applying for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields Cleanup Grant to secure funding for the remediation of brownfield sites in Council District Eight. Community Impact Statement: None submitted (3) 25-1145 Motion (Padilla – Yaroslavsky) relative to possible uses for the parcels of land beneath and adjacent to transmission lines along Ilex Avenue in the Sun Valley neighborhood. Community Impact Statement: None submitted (4) 25-0974 Motion (Yaroslavsky, Raman – Hernandez, Rodriguez) relative to the City's participation in the ShadeLA campaign, assigning department liaisons for a shade-tracking dashboard, streamlining permitting processes related to natural shade, and related matters. Community Impact Statement: Yes Against Unless Amended: Palms Neighborhood Council. (5) 25-0962 Motion (Nazarian – Padilla) relative to a collaboration with ShadeLA on shade expansion, tracking tree-planting efforts, Sidewalk and Transit Amenities Program impacts, and related matters. (This item was referred to Energy and Environment Committee, Public Works Committee, and Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games)  Community Impact Statement: Yes Against Unless Amended: Palms Neighborhood Council. (6) 23-1276 Motion (Price – Blumenfield) relative to addressing pending public nuisance properties in the City, improving the public nuisance declaration process, and preparing an ordinance to add to the definition of public nuisance. (This item was referred to Energy and Environment Committee, Planning and Land Use Management Committee, and Public Safety Committee) Community Impact Statement: Yes For, If Amended: Palms Neighborhood Council (7) 21-1039-S3 Motion (Blumenfield – Nazarian) relative to ensuring the municipal electrification, solar and battery decarbonization master plan has a focus on opportunities that lower municipal solar bills and generate renewable energy and storage to maximize GreenHouse Gas (GHG) elimination, and related matters. Community Impact Statement: None submitted (This item was referred to Energy and Environment Committee and Government Operations Committee) (8) 14-0738-S1 Exemption, Board of Water and Power Commissioners and City Attorney report, and Ordinance relative to amending the Los Angeles Administrative Code approving the Department of Water and Power (DWP) Open Access Transmission Tariff. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted TIME LIMIT FILE - NOVEMBER 30, 2025  (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - NOVEMBER 14, 2025) (9) 21-1330 CD 7 City Administrative Officer report relative to the Fourth Amendment to the Second Memorandum of Understanding with the Discovery Cube Los Angeles (DCLA) to develop, promote, and assist with Bureau of Sanitation environmental events and programs. Fiscal Impact Statement: Yes Financial Policies Statement: Yes Community Impact Statement: None submitted TIME LIMIT FILE - DECEMBER 16, 2025 (LAST DAY FOR COUNCIL ACTION - DECEMBER 12, 2025) SUPPORTING MATERIALS Materials relating to items on the agenda are available on the Office of the City Clerk's Council File Management System found at https://cityclerk.lacity.org/lacityclerkconnect by entering the Council File number (e.g., 00-0000) associated with the agenda item. PUBLIC INPUT AT CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE MEETINGS Members of the public who wish to speak on one or multiple items shall have an opportunity to speak up to one minute per item up to a total of two minutes for two or more agenda items. At regular meetings, members of the public shall also have an opportunity to speak up to one minute for general public comment on any matter within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the Committee. The Committee is not required to take general public comment at special meetings. The Committee may limit the total amount of time for public comment on any specific agenda item, on all agenda-items collectively, and/or on general public comment, based on the anticipated time required to hear from public speakers on any given or all agenda items, on the availability of Committee members and the need to maintain quorum, and on any other relevant factor. The Committee shall not discuss or take action relative to any general public comment except as explicitly permitted under the Brown Act. COMMITTEE INFORMATION, ASSIGNMENTS, AND STRUCTURE https://clerk.lacity.gov/clerk-services/cps/council-committee-meetings/info-assignments-structure SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION Requests for reasonable modification or accommodation from individuals with disabilities, consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, can be made by contacting the City Clerk's Office at (213) 978-1133. For Telecommunications Relay Service for the hearing impaired, please see the information below. NOTICE TO PAID REPRESENTATIVES If a member of the public is compensated to monitor, attend, or speak at this meeting, City law may require them to register as a lobbyist and report this activity. More information can be found at Los Angeles Municipal Code 48.01 et seq. or at ethics.lacity.org/lobbying. Further assistance can be found by contacting the Ethics Commission at (213) 978-1960 or ethics.commission@lacity.org. EXHAUSTION OF ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES A member of the public seeking to challenge a City action in court may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk prior to the public hearing in time reasonably to be considered by the Committee members. Any written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk before the City Council's final action on a matter will become a part of the administrative record. TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICE (TRS) COMMUNICATIONS Telephone communication is one of the most important forms of communication in society today. Due to advancements in technology, telephone devices have evolved with new services and capabilities. Individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, and individuals with a speech disability, may be able to avail themselves of both for peer-to-peer and third-party telecommunications relay service (TRS) communications. Telecommunications Relay Service is a telephone service that allows persons with hearing or speech disabilities to place and receive telephone calls. TRS is available in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. territories for local and/or long distance calls. TRS providers - generally telephone companies - are compensated for the costs of providing TRS from either a state or a federal fund. There is no cost to the TRS user. What forms of TRS are available? There are several forms of TRS, depending on the particular needs of the user and the equipment available: TRS includes: Text to Voice TIY-Based TRS; Speech-to-Speech Relay Service; Shared Non-English Language Relay Service; Captioned Telephone Relay Service; Internet Protocol Relay Service; and Video Relay Service. Please visit this site for detail descriptions, https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/telecommunications-relay-service-trs. Don't hang up! Some people hang up on TRS calls because they think the caller is a telemarketer. If you hear, "Hello, this is the relay service…" when you pick up the phone, please don't hang up! You are about to talk, through a TRS provider, to a person who is deaf, hard-of-hearing, or has a speech disability. For more information about FCC programs to promote access to telecommunications services for people with disabilities, visit the FCC's Disability Rights Office website.