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Firerecoveryandrebuilding

Every meeting we read, on its own date. The bright ones are where an official raised it.

01 — First meeting where it came up

Los Angeles · Board of Public Works34.05° N · 118.24° W

October 29, 2025

The first meeting in our year where an official raised it. It may not be the first time it came up.

Where an official raised it.

By October 2, 2026, an official we identify by voice had raised fire recovery and rebuilding at 21 of the 497 meetings we read, in 7 public bodies.

meetings where an official raised it

What officials said · Dec 2, 2025

Budget and Finance

“Great, thank you. And then considering ULA is a documentary, uh, transfer tax, how does this impact rebuilding for residents who have had their homes burned down?”— Eunisses Hernandez, Council member · Budget and Finance Committee

What officials said · Mar 11, 2026

City Council

“After major disasters, and especially wildfires, homeowners are often faced with the additional crisis when trying to access insurance benefits to help rebuild their lives.”— Monica Rodriguez, Council member · City Council

What officials said · Mar 23, 2026

Budget and Finance

“I have a couple of questions and I’m going to turn it over to colleagues. Um, how did we secure the $22 million in one-time funding from the state of California to offset property tax losses resulting from the wildfires?”— Katy Young Yaroslavsky, Member · Budget and Finance Committee

What officials said · Sep 22, 2026

Board of Water and Power Commissioners

“You know, I have a friend who was a renter who’s moved 26 times since the fires, exhausted, dealing with PTSD.”— Nurit D. Katz, Commissioner · Board of Water and Power Commissioners

Los Angeles city hall · October 24, 2025 to October 2, 2026

Fire recovery and rebuilding

meetings we read where an official raised it
21
meetings we read in all, each a faint light
497

Every dot opens its meeting video; every remark plays at the second it was said. All the meetings are drawn at City Hall, one wedge for each public body: the map shows when, not where.

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Pacific Palisades came up in 3 in 10 Los Angeles public meetings

497 meetings read (25 of them school-board meetings, also on our school-board site) from 49 public bodies · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 2, 2026 · Play the clip

Latest and next

Newest meeting we’ve read: Oct 2, City CouncilListed after it, not read yet (video listings through Oct 2): —

Posted meetings we foundA partial list, from the city calendars we checked on Oct 29. Not every body posts where we look.
Compared with four other big cities

Los Angeles talks about the Olympics

Across public meetings in five big cities since Oct 24, 2025, the Olympics came up more often in Los Angeles than in any of the other four.

241 of 497 meetingsthe other four cities: 17 of 1,760

Said by anyone: officials, staff or the public. At the full City Council, 75 of 85 meetings.

Los Angeles241 of 497
San Francisco3 of 762
New York7 of 479
Chicago4 of 290
Oakland3 of 229

One dot is one meeting Hamlet transcribed (one body on one day); lit, the topic came up at least once. Meetings from Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 9, 2026. Checked: 20 of 20 mentions read in context were about this. The chart with its 90% ranges, and how we know

Eunisses Hernandez, District 1 · Budget Hearings · Apr 29, 2026