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Fire recovery and rebuilding

Eight officials raised fire recovery and rebuilding at 21 meetings. Katy Young Yaroslavsky raised it most, at 8.

We count who raised it, not which side they took.

21meetings where an official raised it
8officials

Spot check: all 50 lines were on topic. · Quotes from Dec 2, 2025 to Sep 22, 2026 · How we count

Share of each body's meetings where an official raised fire recovery and rebuilding

Share of each board's transcribed meetings where an identified official raised it. Shaded band: 90% range; overlapping bands are too close to call. Boards with fewer than six meetings left out.

  1. Budget and Finance Committee63% · 7 of 11 transcribed meetings
  2. Board of Water and Power Commissioners12% · 1 of 8 transcribed meetings
  3. West Los Angeles Area Planning Commission8% · 1 of 12 transcribed meetings
  4. City Council7% · 6 of 85 transcribed meetings
  5. Board of Public Works4% · 3 of 72 transcribed meetings
All 7 bodies
  1. Ad Hoc Committee for LA Recovery— 2 of 2 meetings read; too few to give a share
  2. Trade, Travel, and Tourism Committee— 1 of 4 meetings read; too few to give a share

Eight officials, by meetings where they raised it

86% of officials’ talk time on it is identified, so counts are at least these.

“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?”

Play at 25:28Mar 23, 2026

“I’ve had to tell my city— I just this weekend was talking to folks from my community who have critical capital infrastructure projects that have washed out during the rains, and we’re told we can’t— you can’t do that because all those resources are going to the Palisades.”

Play at 3:10:34Dec 2, 2025

“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.”

Play at 1:33:11Mar 11, 2026

“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?”

Play at 29:21Dec 2, 2025

“You know, I have a friend who was a renter who’s moved 26 times since the fires, exhausted, dealing with PTSD.”

Play at 12:50Sep 22, 2026

“I would imagine you’d be pulling people out of San Pedro and Watts and sending them up to the Palisades to do this work.”

Play at 24:26Dec 2, 2025

“I don’t recall seeing a fire hydrant along that stretch when you turn off of Benedict Canyon.”

Play at 2:21:41Jun 17, 2026

12 local news articles on fire recovery and rebuilding in 12 months, and 21 meetings that took it up

Month by month · articles we found in local outlets (LAist, Los Angeles Times), not all coverage

Local news articlesMeetings that took it up
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21J
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Meetings that raised fire recovery and rebuilding drew 13.2 public speakers each

Public speakers per meeting, the whole meeting, not only this item · counts of people, never names · members of the public are never named, pictured or quoted

Meetings that raised fire recovery and rebuilding13.2
21 meetings
All other meetings we counted13.2
414 meetings