Mayor Bass 2025 State of the City Speech Portends A Difficult Budget Season for LA

Thank you. Thank you everyone. Thank you so much. Thank you. And thank you to Council President Harris Dawson. I know you have been President for a while, but let me congratulate you on your presidency to the Council.

To the Los Angeles Fire Department Honor Guard for the presentation of our colors and to Los Angeles Police Officers Karr and Rocha for that wonderful rendition of our National Anthem.

Thank you for joining us here in these chambers, and thank you for your heroic efforts.

Madam City Attorney, Mr. City Controller, City Council President, City Council President President Pro Tempore, Members of the City Council, City Commissioners, department leaders, distinguished guests, and to the people of Los Angeles, and the members of my family. There’s so many members of my family here. Please stand, members of the Bass family. And our guests from Japan. Thank you thank you for always supporting me, always being there with me. And thank you for joining me today as we continue to turn the page for our city.

In preparing for today, I reflected on my predecessors who addressed our city during times of civil unrest, recession, earthquakes and pandemics. No matter what our city faces, LA never ever gives up. LA always rises. Always rises.

Yesterday, many of us gathered with our families for Easter. Today however, many Angelenos will gather to mourn the loss of Pope Francis. On behalf of the City of Los Angeles I want to offer the condolences of our City to our Archbishop Jose Gomez.

We come together now in these chambers just over 100 days after a devastating firestorm that also reminds us of how the world can change in an instant. The aftermath of this disaster weighs on our city, which already had huge challenges before us.

We feel it every day: the strain of the housing crisis; the tragedy of the homelessness crisis. We worry about public safety and the unpredictability of our streets, we worry about a changing climate that brings increasing weather extremes, and we worry about rising costs and economic uncertainty.

But I want you to know that I see it. We are not here to gloss over difficulties. We are here to meet them head-on and to make real change. Today, I want to talk about and confront what isn’t working, investing in what is, and delivering results. First of all, we must reform how our city works, and we must rebuild a city that works better for everyone that calls LA home.

In January we saw thousands of Angelenos evacuate from their homes – in Sylmar, in Hollywood, in Brentwood, in Encino, in Sherman Oaks, and of course in the Palisades where tragically 12 people lost their lives. Thousands lost their homes – a traumatic loss not just of property, but of memories, of sanctuary, of community. Our city and county firefighters heroically answered the call. Firefighters from around the state, the country, and even around the world joined in that fight. Let us all thank our firefighters! Freddy Escobar. Chief Villanueva.

After the fires were out, Angelenos, with resilience and resolve, asked “how can we rebuild our homes? And when can we go home?” Home is at the heart of healing, and that has been the North Star of our recovery efforts to get people home.

So I want to acknowledge some heroes in that effort who are here today: Larry Vein of Pali Strong, Maryam Zar of the Palisades Recovery Coalition, and Sue Kohl of the Pacific Palisades Community Council. All three, all three have been working from day one, to make sure that the community of the Palisades is at the forefront of the recovery effort. To Kevin Chin, who, despite having stage 4 cancer, single handedly fought the flames and saved people’s lives. Larry, Maryam, Sue, Kevin please stand so we can congratulate you, applaud you, and thank you again.

Now, Councilwoman Park. I’m not sure I need to say more than that. Councilwoman Park. Let me thank you for your leadership, for your support, and for standing up for your constituents every day. You push the City, the County, the State and the Federal government to do more and to do it faster and to get the job done on behalf of Palisades. Please stand, please stand. She has been in the Palisades, at fire stations, at recovery centers every day. She has been on the ground making sure we cut red tape and provide comfort. And so again, we thank you, Councilwoman.

Today, in reporting on the State of our City, I report to Los Angeles that the recovery in the Palisades is on track to be the fastest in California history. We're not just moving fast to move fast. We know that the faster we can rebuild, the faster we can heal. We still have a long way to go, and for those who have lost a home, each and every day is a day too long. We want to be fast, we want to be safe and we want to be resilient.

We have issued permits to rebuild twice as fast as after the Camp and Woolsey fires, we restored water nearly a year and a half faster than after the Camp Fire, and we restored power in just two months. Los Angeles, I assure you, rebuilding is underway.

Our sweeping emergency orders are slicing through red tape and unlocking innovation, and today I’m announcing three new actions. Marian you're going to be happy – to expedite the planning process and make it easier to rebuild. I am establishing a self-certification program to reduce redundancy in the permitting process. We will launch an initiative to start using innovative AI technology to accelerate and support the City’s permit process. Now if successful, we will take both of these new initiatives citywide, to accelerate building everywhere. Folks from the Palisades and the councilwoman, finally, I call on the Council to pass an ordinance to waive all plan check and permit fees so that Angelenos can get home.

These actions build on the support the city has provided thus far. Our Disaster Recovery Center, which we opened in January, has helped nearly ten thousand households replace vital documents and obtain recovery services – this sends a signal of hope to Palisades residents while delivering results.

People also lost jobs — I think about the housekeepers, caregivers, servers, gardeners, teachers, who worked in homes, restaurants and small businesses. This is why we opened four Impacted Worker and Family Recovery Centers across the city. These centers have provided financial assistance, business assistance, and other services for people regardless of which fire they were impacted by.

The impacts are citywide – air pollution and smoke damage also caused displacement around the city. Recovery has been all hands on deck.

I want to thank the County Supervisor Holly Mitchell. I want to thank the County for its partnership in debris removal, and we continue to stand in solidarity with those affected by the fires in Altadena, in Malibu and everywhere in the County.

And I also want to thank the White House and our federal partners, FEMA, the EPA, the Army Corps of Engineers – So I want to take this opportunity to introduce another one of our heroes. Colonel Swenson of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The councilwoman and I weren't sure we'd recognize you outside of your Army Corps of Engineering uniform.  Let me just say that the colonel has become a hero in the city and in the Palisades because he has led the effort that has contributed to us having the fastest recovery so far in California history, the army Corps of Engineers has already cleared 500 properties in the Palisades area, which means people can start rebuilding today.

And to our Governor, Governor Newsom, and our state agencies — we want to thank you all for your support. You have moved mountains to remove hazards and restore hope. Philanthropy has stepped up in a big way, too, with support coming from major institutions and from everyday Angelenos.

I want to thank Coach JJ Redick not just for leading the Lakers to the playoffs, we thank him for that too, but also for leading LA Strong Sports. I also want to thank Steadfast LA and Palisades stakeholder organizations for joining us in creating the public-private partnership that will fund, redesign and rebuild the Palisades Recreation Center.

Our youth, who still feel the trauma from the pandemic, were traumatized again by the fires, but this initiative will help them heal. So please join me in giving thanks for all of the generosity from individual people and our philanthropic community.

So home isn’t just a structure, it’s a feeling. If Los Angeles is going to work for the people who call it home, then home has to feel safe. That’s why public safety is at the core of our work. From the beginning of my administration, we have led a comprehensive approach to safety. I said we would work to rebuild the ranks of the LAPD to protect our communities, and I want to thank Councilman Lee and Councilwoman Rodriguez for their staunch advocacy for public safety.

And I’m pleased to report we have hit a four-year-high of applications to join the LAPD, but the frustrating part is that the city’s broken system now stands in the way of actually hiring those applicants. That is why, and you know that it’s coming, Malaika, that’s why I appointed a new head of the Personnel Department with a clear directive – stop the bureaucratic madness, overhaul the system. How’s that for pressure? And get officers hired and on our streets, and I look forward to working with Chairman Tim McOsker of the Personnel and Hiring Committee to reform this process citywide. The hiring process needs to be reformed and you will lead the effort.

We created a first-of-its-kind Office of Community Safety which works to prevent crime and reduce violence across the city. This office works with trained and trusted intervention workers.  They have built trust with the community and are uniquely qualified to stop gang violence and cycles of retaliation. They are an essential part of our crime-fighting strategy.

Now we’ve also brought in a new chief, Chief McDonnell, Chief McDonnell and I stand together in reporting good news that both violent crime and property crime are down in Los Angeles.

This is the result of a comprehensive approach to safety. Last year, homicides fell by 14%. Gang-related homicides in communities most impacted fell by 45%. The number of shooting victims fell 19%.

And we've intensified public safety efforts on Metro; we have cracked down on organized retail theft; we’re addressing copper wire theft – through public safety efforts and new solutions like solar street lights; and we are acting boldly around MacArthur Park to bring crime down in a united effort with Councilwoman Hernandez.

Angelenos – we are turning the corner on crime in Los Angeles and we will not go back because at the end of the day, public safety is about so much more than statistics. It’s about whether people feel secure where they live. It’s about whether they feel safe at home. So if you are a police officer and let’s start with our Chief McDonnell please stand, if you are an interventionist, if you have worked towards making public safety in Los Angeles safer, will you please stand.

Thank you, thank you thank you for your work.

The homelessness crisis is a humanitarian crisis and it affects everyone: those without a home, and those who worry about what they see outside of their home. We have made significant progress, but we still have so much further to go.

So first of all, I want to thank Councilmember Raman, Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, I thank you for your leadership on this issue. As Chair, she leads the way. Thanks right you can give her a round of applause she deserves it.

Partnership is so important – here in this room, throughout the County and all 88 cities within it. But in the wake of the County decision to withdraw from LAHSA and audits confirming what we already knew — the system is broken, it must be transformed. However I am concerned that there is the potential danger of going backwards into silos, and just creating new bureaucracy is not transformational.

Moving forward, we must make sure we have a comprehensive and regional approach. And the City of LA is ready to continue down the road of reform and solid, meaningful partnership.

Year after year, the broken system allowed the crisis to grow. In 2016, voters approved Measure HHH to build 10,000 units of housing. At that time, LA had about 25,000 unhoused residents. By the time I took office, less than two-and-a-half years ago, that number had grown to more than 46,000 unhoused Angelenos.

On my first day in office, I declared a State of Emergency on homelessness, specifically to inject disruption and change to fix this broken system. This includes systematically confronting old outdated policies that actually stop people from being housed. Listen to this, people living in a tent, people who had nothing, actually had to prove they were poor before they were eligible for housing.

So I want to know, how do you prove no income? How do you prove nothing? We fought, and Washington removed that barrier.

Here’s another one: If veterans, veterans – heroes who fought for our country – received disability checks, they were told they made too much money and were not eligible for Veteran housing vouchers. So we mobilized, we took more than 50 mayors, took them to Washington DC, and we fought and Washington removed that barrier.

The result is, for the first time, we have secured housing vouchers for every homeless veteran in LA.

We built a partnership with U.S. Vets, the Greater LA Realtors and Apartment association, in fact even Stevie Wonder has joined the call.

So now, I call on all Angelenos who have rental properties. Be a patriot, take a voucher, house a veteran. 
For years, the de facto policy of the city and the county rigidly over-prioritized permanent housing to the extent that people were just left on the street while housing was being built.

Well I don’t care how fast you build. We cannot build fast enough to leave people on the street until projects are completed is unacceptable. It is unacceptable for people to live in squalor on our streets. This is Los Angeles. So we must invest in long-term interim housing.

Inside Safe represents a major change: instead of waiting on expensive new housing to be built, we tapped LA’s supply of underused motels to bring people inside immediately. Inside Safe has cleared thousands of tents outside of schools, storefronts, and homes citywide, but given that we know that motels alone are not financially sustainable. We must invest in long-term interim housing—places where people can stay safe and receive comprehensive services to rebuild their lives while we build housing that Angelenos need. We are already proving new models for immediately making housing available at a much lower cost.

LA4LA, led by Sarah Dusseault. LA4LA is the public-private partnership I announced from this podium last year, LA4LA is helping us acquire existing buildings. We have already master leased a building in Koreatown that has housed nearly 60 Angelenos who were part of Inside Safe. The strategy of LA4LA is to experiment with new, less expensive financing models and acquire vacant properties, which will be faster than relying on building new properties.

But you know what, after all that, we must figure out how to prevent people from ending up on the street in the first place, and if we don’t, we’ll have more of the same. Again, 25,000 in 2016 exploded to 46,000 in 2022 because every day, more people were falling into homelessness than being lifted out of it. 

The problem is, there are few – if any – research-tested programs actively preventing people from losing their homes.

The Mayor’s Fund connects people in danger of becoming homeless with resources that will help them stay housed, whether it is food and healthcare assistance to ease financial burdens so people can pay their rent, or legal assistance to avoid evictions.  

The Mayor’s Fund is able to reach out to help every Angeleno facing eviction because of action taken by the Council, led by Councilmember Raman, to require that the City be notified of every eviction filing. That’s the partnership. The Council passed the ordinance, the Mayor’s fund is implementing it along with other partner organizations that are helping people not become homeless in the first place. We had the Mayor’s Fund program analyzed by Loyola Marymount University, and during the six month study period alone, the Mayor’s Fund connected 31,000 Angelenos with resources to help them stay housed.

I know there are some people here who were able to stay in your homes because of the Mayor’s Fund along with some of the caseworkers who help keep people housed. Will you please stand to be recognized. Where are you. There you are. And I want to acknowledge the CEO of the Mayor’s Fund Conway Collis. Is confronting homelessness expensive? Of course it is – and we are working to lower costs and make sure that valuable tax dollars are being well spent.

Leaving people on the street comes at an enormous human cost. Last Thursday I was at an encampment that had existed since before the Pandemic – more than 25 RVs lined the street with more than 41 Angelenos in tents up and down the block. I met a veteran. I met a family who had clearly just been evicted because all of their household items were outside of their tent. I saw a child maybe the same age as my one year-old grandson. I saw that child in a dirty stroller. And their sibling was hiding her head because she didn’t want to be seen. What is going to happen to them?

They’re all inside now. And for me – Housing these folks;  Saving lives; And ending encampments that had been there for years and years. That is worth the cost. Because the cost of leaving an encampment on the street impacts everyone around. Small businesses pay the price when their entrances are blocked. People lose their jobs when restaurants lose customers. Residents feel safer when encampments are removed and people are housed. LAPD will report crime is down at locations where encampments were removed and people were housed.

Just last week Chief, the Fire Department shared that nearly a third of fires in Los Angeles, a third of fires, involved someone who is homeless. An ambulance ride costs thousands. So does a night in the ER. Multiply that by the number of encampment incidents every year, and it's clear that the cost of doing nothing is not just inhumane, it is also financially unsustainable.

So we are taking action and making change, and after years of increasing homelessness, we are finally reversing that trend – homelessness is down. That includes a 10 percent reduction in street homelessness – and a 38 percent reduction in makeshift structures and tents. We are moving thousands more people from the streets than before we took office, and more Angelenos are being moved into permanent housing than ever before. Now all of this comes as, nationwide, homeless went up by 18 percent – but not in Los Angeles!

I know we all wish we could just focus on reductions in homelessness and crime, and on the fastest recovery in our state’s history. But the reality is that our city faces a more than 800 million dollar deficit.

Cities like ours are going through challenging economic times across the nation.

Turmoil and uncertainty from Washington and a slowing economy are causing lower revenue projections to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Liability settlements have tripled from backed up lawsuits during the pandemic and uncapped damages. Combined with personnel costs, and of course the fires and the rebuilding all together, Los Angeles we have a difficult budget to balance.

Since January, I’ve been in active conversations with our partners in labor to find solutions to address a worsening economic outlook.

We identified new revenue to offset costs. We reduced funding for the Mayor’s Office. We further eliminated “ghost” positions, and we postponed some capital projects.

But now, I would like to take a minute to address our city workforce directly:

Make no mistake — you are this city’s greatest asset. Every single day, you come to work in dedicated service to the people of Los Angeles, often in challenging working conditions – you help Angelenos and you help make our city better every day.

But I want to be straight with you – my proposed budget unfortunately includes layoffs, which is a decision of absolute last resort. The City Attorney and I will be in Sacramento this week to meet with legislative leaders and advocate for resources while also working to manage the increasing liabilities.  

So let me assure our hardworking public servants, I will never ever stop fighting for you.

Now, we’re also taking steps to make our city run in a more efficient manner– we’re going to consolidate departments, rebuild our reserves and reorganize structures with the number one goal of improving service for Angelenos. I was proud to have supported new labor contracts, approved by the Council, that invested in our workforce.

But now, it is time to work together again so we can balance this year’s budget and create a foundation for long-lasting and long-overdue fiscal stability. I will make sure the city does its part. I want to be clear – the departmental changes contained in this budget proposal must only be the beginning. Because we must have fundamental change – starting now and moving forward.

For example, upgrades or maintenance to a single street can involve the Board of the Public Works, the Department of Transportation, the Bureau of Engineering, the Bureau of Street Services, the Bureau of Street Lighting, the Bureau of Sanitation and the DWP.

Building housing can involve the Planning Commission, the Planning Department, the Department of Building and Safety, the Bureau of Sanitation, the Bureau of Engineering, the Fire Department, the Housing Department and the DWP.

This is a broken system – and to turn LA around, we have to fix this.

I agree with the Controller that we should move forward to implement a multi-year budget and to amend our charter – we are doing work to plan capital projects over the long run through the city’s first ever capital improvement plan established under my executive order. This week, we will be announcing the Executive Director of the Charter Reform Commission as well as our first appointees – with the goal of standing up the Commission before the end of the month.

The state of our city is this – Homelessness is down. Crime is down. These are tough challenges, and they show that we can do so much more. We still have a long way to go. We need a citywide turnaround. And we need a fundamental overhaul of City government to deliver the clean, safe and orderly neighborhoods that Angelenos deserve in the place they called home – and to reverse decades of failure on homelessness.

So my pledge is to continue making change – and I ask the City Council and every Angeleno to join in turning our city around. We are building a city ready to lead – not just for today, but for tomorrow.

From Downtown to the Valley, from the Port to the airport, we are investing in jobs, housing, and opportunity.

Because the cost of living keeps going up – it’s harder and harder to put food on the table, gas tank full and to pay the bills.. Tariffs and trade wars will make this worse and make things more expensive. But we are fighting here in LA to create better paying jobs.

Trade and trade wars are also causing instability all across the supply chain that is at the heart of our economy – the Port of LA is the nation’s number-one Port and 1 in 9 people in our region have a job connected to the Port. Just think 40 percent, 40 percent of all U.S. goods come through LA’s ports. Mr. Seroka. Gene Seroka. We will strategize with you and fight for you to protect our longshore workers, truckers, manufacturers and business owners, Big and Small.

And make no mistake – we will protect every Angeleno, no matter where you are from, no matter when you arrived in L.A. Because we know how much immigrants contribute to our city in so many ways. We will always stand strong with you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is LA.

New investments are coming to LA -- like the recently announced Rams Village, which will be built on nearly 100 acres and be home to the team’s headquarters and training facilities, along with new housing, workspaces, and a first-of-its-kind entertainment center for the Valley. We appreciate the team’s increasing investment in L.A. and I want to thank Councilman Blumenfield for his leadership and perseverance in making this happen.

Council President Harris-Dawson is leading the change to revitalize Crenshaw Boulevard with Destination Crenshaw — an open air People’s museum. It will have more than 100 installations of public art by artists from South LA. This will dramatically repair, revitalize, and sustain the Crenshaw Corridor and center it as a must-see exhibition for art consumers from around the world.

LAX is a national economic powerhouse, John Ackerman. And I want to make sure when LAX makes investments, it invests in the rest of LA, too. That is why we have broken new ground in contracting and construction at the airport – so that the latest round of $5 billion in investment prioritizes LA jobs and LA businesses – in fact, this investment includes 13 first-time prime contractors. This is an example of how we will continue to build businesses and build LA despite tough times. We will get it done.

Last year from this podium, I called for the need to invest and modernize our Convention Center and I am proud to report today that with the Council’s vote two weeks ago, we are well on the way.

If we are going to bring Downtown back, if we are going to bring tourism back, we can not sit back and hope for something to happen – we must compete to win. Right now, conventions are going elsewhere. With a new convention center, we will attract thousands of business travelers – business travelers with expense accounts who will book hotel rooms, buy souvenirs and visit our vibrant neighborhoods. And we must compete for those jobs and we have to win back, first and foremost, our foundational industry, the entertainment industry.

We have to win back our entertainment jobs. I renew my call to the State to triple the Film and TV tax credit.

When I was Speaker of the Assembly, along with assemblyman Paul Krekorian. We passed the state’s first production tax credit. But you know we didn’t keep up and now, other states and other countries are taking our good middle class jobs.

We will continue to advocate in Sacramento for the tax credit, but LA, Angelenos – we also have to do our part here. So going forward, we will make it easier and more cost effective to film on city property. And we will also streamline the permitting process to make it easier to film in LA.  So to our leaders in Sacramento – and to our local industry leaders here – I say, – let’s bring Hollywood back.

Now you know we have to fight for our future—but we all have to want it. We all have to believe in it. Because a great city isn’t just built by policy or investment—it’s built by the people who show up for it – and show up for each other.

As the 2028 Games approach, I know Councilmember Jurado is working hard to make Downtown ready for the Olympic Games. Councilmember Hernandez is working with the community to welcome Olympic baseball at Dodger Stadium. Councilmember Padilla is preparing for the pentathlon, which will be held at the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area. Councilmember Price is working to welcome the USC Sports Center and Councilmember Nazarian will welcome Squash players to the East Valley. Thanks to Councilman McOsker’s work and relationships, Team Croatia will be headquartered in San Pedro and maybe a few other things. We hope Councilwoman Hutt will host Team South Korea in Koreatown. And you Councilwoman Yaroslavsky, you will be gearing up for thousands of athletes to be housed at the Olympic Village in UCLA.

Working to unite and prepare the City is our former Council President Paul Krekorian, now Executive Director for the Office of Major Events. And I want to thank you for ensuring the Olympic Flag and paralympic flag are here in council chambers.

When I think about these Games I think of icons like Anita DeFrantz. She is a trailblazing Olympic medalist, who helped organize the 1984 games for LA, and she has been an IOC member since 1986 and thanks to Anita, and former Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA28’s Casey Wasserman, we will now be only the third city in history to host three Olympic games.

But most of all, most of all, the games are exemplified by people like Arelle Middleton.

Arelle was introduced to sports at 5 years old. Where are you? Where are you, Arelle. Is she here with us? Well I'm going to talk about her anyway. – She was introduced to sports at 5 years old and since then she has participated in water polo, volleyball, wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, shot put and discus. She’s a PlayLA athlete – a City program that provides access to sports at our rec centers, and it's powered by the Olympic and Paralympic movements.

She didn’t let her challenges get in her way. So at 16 years old, Arelle became one of the youngest members of the 2024 U.S. Paralympic Team – and she won a silver medal in Paris. She exemplifies the opportunity and inspiration to young people that city initiatives like PlayLA and the Olympic games provide. She is what the L.A. games are all about!

Now 2028 is right around the corner. But we are 15 months away from welcoming the world for the World Cup.

We want people not just to see our stadiums. We want them to see the real L.A. – our neighborhoods from East LA, to Pico Union to South LA. From Watts to Woodland Hills, from Eagle Rock to Encino, from San Pedro to Sylmar. And we want our city to be at its best.

So this is why I am calling on all Angelenos to come together to prepare our city to welcome the world. Let’s come together and do this.

This Saturday, we will launch Shine LA, to show the spirit of our city coming together. Every single month, we will bring Angelenos together side-by-side to unify and beautify our neighborhoods. Improving communities and parks; planting trees, painting murals and so much more.

I invite all Angelenos to join us on Saturday. So we’ll be in South LA, Boyle Heights, Echo Park, West LA, the Valley, the Harbor area — and we’ll kick it off with a community celebration in Hollywood with more than forty organizations there and thanks to the partnership with Councilman Soto-Martinez, we will all begin to show our love for LA. We have one goal– love L.A. We will show our love for each other – just like the spirit that we all felt in October, remember October, when we celebrated the Dodgers winning the World Series just across the street. That’s the kind of spirit that we need.

So join us – and to join this movement– you can visit lamayor.org and sign up today. This coming Saturday and every month until we welcome the world next July for the World Cup.

It’s about pride.

It’s about choosing to believe in our city again—and proving it with action.

Block by block, we will come together to be stronger, more unified than ever before—and that matters, especially in a world that seeks to divide us with each passing day.

Angelenos—this is about you. This is about all of us. It’s about choosing to believe in each other again, and in the future of the city we love.

Because this is the City of dreams. So let me tell you a story.

Leading up to 1984, we were in the midst of the worst recession in 40 years, the world doubted us. And yes, maybe we doubted ourselves too. But Los Angeles delivered the most successful Olympic Games in history. We didn’t just host the world—we redefined what was possible. Because the Games, at its best, are more than sport. They are a stage for courage. For potential. For dreams.

So, L.A.—let’s go win. Let’s win on the world stage, yes—but let’s especially win here at home.

We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to each other.

But most of all—we owe it to the next generation of Angelenos.

Thank you for the honor of being your Mayor. Thank you, thank you, thank you.