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Bob Blumenfield

Councilmember, District 3, Los Angeles City Council

Raised fire recovery and rebuilding at five meetings. Named Woodland Hills four times, more than any other official.

46 of 85transcribed meetings with their voice identified
54 of 71present at opening roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Planning and Land Use Management Committee; sits on 3 more committees

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Five clips, newest first

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ICE and immigration enforcementBob BlumenfieldCouncil member · City Council · Oct 28, 2025 · 1:05:35Last week I had some folks actually lined up who had witnessed their car wash coworkers being abducted, leaving behind minor children who were not U.S. citizens. But as they were undocumented themselves, understandably they got concerned about coming in today.Open the meeting at 1:05:35
Homelessness and LAHSA“You know, if you expand the catchment zone in my area, you’re going to ostensibly bring folks from Olympic-related areas into the area, but we’re already full and we don’t have enough space for the folks who are homeless, uh, around those, those areas.”Bob BlumenfieldCouncil member · Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games · Jun 30, 2026 · 1:07:102028 Olympics“I didn’t, I didn’t quite understand it before. And then another narrow thing on page 118 to 119. The report states that the governor’s proposed budget includes $96.5 million for maintenance projects near LA28 games venues.”Bob BlumenfieldCouncil member · Budget and Finance Committee · Mar 3, 2026 · 43:27“I just— I would argue that we get a lot more bang for your buck by educating the people driving the vehicles, the killing machines, rather than the people that are walking in the street.”Bob BlumenfieldCouncil member · Budget and Finance Committee · Dec 2, 2025 · 1:01:42“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.”Bob BlumenfieldCouncil member · City Council · Dec 2, 2025 · 3:10:32

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Blumenfield raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Where Blumenfield sits

District 3 on the current City Council map

Click a district to open its member’s page.

District 1: Eunisses HernandezDistrict 2: Adrin NazarianDistrict 3: Bob BlumenfieldDistrict 4: Nithya RamanDistrict 5: Katy Young YaroslavskyDistrict 6: Imelda PadillaDistrict 7: Monica RodriguezDistrict 8: Marqueece Harris-DawsonDistrict 9: Curren D. Price Jr.District 10: Heather HuttDistrict 11: Traci ParkDistrict 12: John LeeDistrict 13: Hugo Soto-MartinezDistrict 14: Ysabel J. JuradoDistrict 15: Tim McOskerCity HallEunisses Hernandez · District 1Adrin Nazarian · District 2Bob Blumenfield · District 3Nithya Raman · District 4Katy Young Yaroslavsky · District 5Imelda Padilla · District 6Monica Rodriguez · District 7Marqueece Harris-Dawson · District 8Curren D. Price Jr. · District 9Heather Hutt · District 10Traci Park · District 11John Lee · District 12Hugo Soto-Martinez · District 13Ysabel J. Jurado · District 14Tim McOsker · District 15
Bob Blumenfield sits for District 3. Click a district to open its member’s page.District lines: LA County GIS, LA City Council Districts (2021), Political_Boundaries/MapServer/33 (the city's adopted 2021 map), fetched 2026-10-30.
Every roll call, and Blumenfield’s other bodies

Present at 54 of 71 opening roll calls at the City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentAbsent at openingOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent at opening roll call 17 · voted later in 7 of those. Oct 24, 2025 to Sep 30, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 72 of the 101 meetings we hold, through Sep 30, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
Neighborhoods Blumenfield named

9 places Blumenfield named in meetings

Lines where Blumenfield named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

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  • Woodland Hills 4 times, the most of any official
  • Canoga Park 3 times, the most of any official
  • Wilmington 2 times
  • Bel Air 1 time
  • Harbor City 1 time
  • Little Tokyo 1 time
  • Reseda 1 time
  • San Pedro 1 time
  • Winnetka 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)). A dot says the place was named, not where Blumenfield was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Blumenfield’s voice

70, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Blumenfield’s first remark.

  1. Oct 2, 2026City Council12.1 min50:54
  2. Sep 22, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee13.8 min8:01
  3. Sep 22, 2026City Council4.2 min1:58:02
  4. Sep 4, 2026City Council9.7 min43:13
  5. Aug 28, 2026City Council4.5 min1:35:22
  6. Aug 26, 2026City Council6.8 min44:28
  7. Aug 25, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee29.1 min6:16
  8. Aug 21, 2026City Council15.7 min49:51
  9. Aug 19, 2026City Council0.3 min45:33
  10. Aug 12, 2026City Council2.6 min4:04:29
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  1. Aug 11, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee24.1 min5:31
  2. Aug 11, 2026City Council0.9 min3:38:22
  3. Aug 4, 2026City Council0.4 min46:23
  4. Jul 1, 2026City Council0.4 min3:06:41
  5. Jun 30, 2026City Council6.4 min4:36:09
  6. Jun 30, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games1.6 min1:06:47
  7. Jun 26, 2026City Council1.4 min2:18:48
  8. Jun 17, 2026City Council9.7 min18:31
  9. Jun 16, 2026City Council4.3 min16:41
  10. Jun 16, 2026Budget and Finance Committee4.5 min2:47
  11. Jun 12, 2026City Council4.1 min17:33
  12. Jun 10, 2026City Council1.1 min1:31:08
  13. Jun 9, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee18.4 min4:28
  14. Jun 5, 2026City Council10.6 min43:38
  15. Jun 4, 2026Budget and Finance Committee3.6 min1:49:27
  16. May 27, 2026City Council3.2 min1:54:45
  17. May 22, 2026City Council0.8 min1:45:57
  18. May 21, 2026City Council0.9 min3:01:13
  19. May 18, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games1.7 min1:12:51
  20. May 15, 2026City Council11.5 min45:26
  21. May 13, 2026City Council1.9 min4:32:53
  22. May 12, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee37.3 min5:18
  23. Apr 24, 2026City Council0.2 min51:24
  24. Apr 15, 2026City Council0.7 min16:17
  25. Apr 14, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee24.2 min4:58
  26. Apr 14, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games2.5 min1:35:20
  27. Mar 27, 2026City Council4.4 min18:08
  28. Mar 24, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee12.2 min4:30
  29. Mar 24, 2026City Council6.1 min49:28
  30. Mar 23, 2026Budget and Finance Committee7.6 min32:38
  31. Mar 10, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee28.1 min1:03
  32. Mar 10, 2026City Council1.1 min3:42:47
  33. Mar 6, 2026City Council3.0 min2:16:40
  34. Mar 6, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on Unarmed Crisis Prevention, Intervention, and Community Services5.7 min1:50:26
  35. Mar 4, 2026City Council1.4 min2:53:22
  36. Mar 3, 2026Budget and Finance Committee8.7 min5:44
  37. Feb 24, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee36.0 minVideo
  38. Feb 20, 2026City Council0.2 min44:52
  39. Feb 17, 2026City Council4.3 min1:38:27
  40. Feb 13, 2026City Council0.2 min1:08:00
  41. Feb 10, 2026City Council1.8 min38:52
  42. Feb 6, 2026City Council3.9 min1:14:52
  43. Feb 6, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on Unarmed Crisis Prevention, Intervention, and Community Services2.9 min4:05
  44. Feb 4, 2026City Council0.3 min1:54:14
  45. Jan 27, 2026Planning and Land Use Management Committee7.0 min0:41
  46. Dec 12, 2025City Council2.7 min1:43:58
  47. Dec 10, 2025City Council0.6 min57:22
  48. Dec 9, 2025City Council1.2 min1:59:34
  49. Dec 9, 2025Budget and Finance Committee1.9 min34:40
  50. Dec 5, 2025City Council6.7 min1:53:21
  51. Dec 3, 2025City Council1.1 min1:58:53
  52. Dec 2, 2025City Council12.3 min48:26
  53. Dec 2, 2025Budget and Finance Committee16.3 min8:27
  54. Nov 17, 2025Planning and Land Use Management Committee15.8 min27:13
  55. Nov 12, 2025City Council15.0 min48:57
  56. Nov 4, 2025Budget and Finance Committee7.9 min37:08
  57. Oct 29, 2025City Council0.4 min37:42
  58. Oct 28, 2025Planning and Land Use Management Committee22.9 min24:19
  59. Oct 28, 2025City Council4.0 min1:05:20
  60. Oct 24, 2025City Council3.0 min1:29:36
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

We identified Blumenfield’s voice at 70 meetings across five bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Blumenfield was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Bob Blumenfield’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Blumenfield said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Blumenfield or of Los Angeles alone.