Katy Young Yaroslavsky

Councilmember, District 5, Los Angeles City Council

Raised fire recovery and rebuilding at eight meetings, more than any other official we can identify. Named Mid-City two times, more than any other official.

50 of 85transcribed meetings with their voice identified

45 of 69present at opening roll calls, from the clerk

Chairs the Budget and Finance Committee; sits on 5 more other bodies

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Three clips, newest first

2028 OlympicsKaty Young YaroslavskyCouncil member · Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games · Jun 30, 2026 · 2:15:41They also have guarantees to ensure an additional $346 million in allocated contingency for a total of $616 million. So the question is, does the agreement ensure we have audit rights sufficient to confirm LA28 has drawn down the full $616 million in contingency if needed?Open the meeting at 2:15:41

Homelessness and LAHSA“My understanding from our CAO team is that this is not moving today. Right now we’re working with the Weingart Center and our city attorney to formalize commitments about how that site will operate serving people at risk of or experiencing homelessness that are 55 and older.”Katy Young YaroslavskyMember · Budget and Finance Committee · Dec 9, 2025 · 2:04:18 “My understanding of 19A is that it just it calls for our understanding. I think is that it calls for a report, but I’m reading it right now and it says instruct the bureau to report in 30 days on a plan to stay the assessment for properties in Pacific Palisades.”Katy Young YaroslavskyCouncil member · City Council · Mar 13, 2026 · 4:38:39

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Yaroslavsky raised, by number of meetings

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

Where Yaroslavsky sits

District 5 on the current City Council map

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Katy Young Yaroslavsky sits for District 5. 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 Yaroslavsky’s other bodies

Present at 45 of 69 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 24 · voted later in 14 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 →

LA Metro Board of Directors: 1.4 min of speech a meeting, range 0.7–2.9. In the same range as nine other members.
LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee: 1.6 min of speech a meeting, range 0.8–3.5. In the same range as two other members.
City Council: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 31% and 78% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
Budget and Finance Committee: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.

Neighborhoods Yaroslavsky named

5 places Yaroslavsky named in meetings

Lines where Yaroslavsky 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.

Los Angeles

Mid-City 2 times, the most of any official
Westwood 2 times, the most of any official
Hancock Park 1 time
Hollywood 1 time
Koreatown 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 Yaroslavsky was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Yaroslavsky’s voice

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

Oct 1, 2026Energy and Environment Committee5.7 min1:14:22
Sep 22, 2026City Council0.1 min1:47:09
Sep 17, 2026LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee4.2 min40:30
Sep 17, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee1.5 min40:15
Sep 8, 2026City Council0.3 min49:12
Aug 26, 2026City Council1.1 min1:36:35
Aug 21, 2026City Council0.9 min3:21:47
Aug 19, 2026City Council0.1 min45:51
Aug 11, 2026City Council5.0 min48:26
Aug 4, 2026City Council3.9 min2:19:54

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Jul 23, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors1.5 min1:05:54
Jul 16, 2026LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee1.4 min1:16:09
Jul 1, 2026City Council12.8 min41:30
Jun 30, 2026City Council1.6 min2:39:25
Jun 30, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games5.2 min1:25:48
Jun 24, 2026City Council0.1 min2:07:49
Jun 23, 2026City Council3.1 min2:32:30
Jun 17, 2026City Council2.8 min6:08:29
Jun 16, 2026Budget and Finance Committee19.1 min0:22
Jun 12, 2026City Council3.7 min1:19:39
Jun 10, 2026City Council1.4 min1:18:13
Jun 5, 2026City Council3.9 min2:07:19
Jun 4, 2026Budget and Finance Committee36.0 min0:38
May 28, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors2.4 min34:33
May 27, 2026City Council0.1 min48:55
May 26, 2026City Council2.9 min1:35:35
May 21, 2026City Council11.8 min51:19
May 18, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games0.6 min2:47:47
May 15, 2026City Council14.3 min52:08
May 1, 2026City Council10.9 min3:03:51
Apr 29, 2026City Council2.8 min40:48
Apr 23, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors2.7 min29:47
Apr 17, 2026City Council10.4 min40:48
Apr 16, 2026LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee3.5 min4:22
Apr 16, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee1.1 min46:22
Apr 15, 2026City Council2.8 min1:37:13
Apr 15, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors2.4 min49:50
Apr 14, 2026City Council1.4 min1:46:52
Apr 14, 2026Ad Hoc Committee on the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games2.4 min1:14:36
Mar 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors1.8 min2:32:34
Mar 27, 2026City Council9.4 min58:45
Mar 25, 2026City Council7.4 min45:30
Mar 24, 2026City Council4.0 min2:31:57
Mar 23, 2026Budget and Finance Committee10.1 min0:11
Mar 19, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee1.7 min27:26
Mar 13, 2026City Council3.5 min2:24:28
Mar 11, 2026City Council0.1 min1:20:39
Mar 6, 2026City Council7.1 min45:18
Mar 3, 2026Budget and Finance Committee21.0 min0:30
Feb 27, 2026City Council2.8 min45:25
Feb 26, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors0.2 min44:01
Feb 20, 2026City Council4.1 min1:52:15
Feb 19, 2026LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee2.4 min1:41:14
Feb 19, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee2.9 min11:21
Feb 11, 2026City Council0.6 min16:42
Feb 10, 2026City Council0.3 min41:19
Feb 6, 2026City Council5.0 min52:55
Feb 3, 2026City Council6.7 min2:16:27
Jan 28, 2026City Council1.4 min1:04:22
Jan 27, 2026City Council8.6 min2:30:50
Jan 23, 2026City Council1.2 min47:42
Jan 22, 2026LA Metro Board of Directors4.2 min41:36
Jan 21, 2026City Council3.2 min2:43:51
Jan 20, 2026Budget and Finance Committee33.3 min0:53
Jan 15, 2026LA Metro Finance, Budget and Audit Committee0.5 min44:02
Dec 12, 2025City Council13.0 min3:39:43
Dec 9, 2025Budget and Finance Committee25.6 min0:22
Dec 9, 2025City Council5.2 min20:16
Dec 5, 2025City Council0.3 min38:04
Dec 3, 2025City Council0.1 min45:15
Dec 2, 2025Budget and Finance Committee26.0 min3:03
Dec 2, 2025City Council2.4 min49:30
Nov 24, 2025Budget and Finance Committee11.4 min0:06
Nov 20, 2025LA Metro Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee1.3 min1:22:43
Nov 14, 2025City Council8.8 min50:54
Nov 12, 2025City Council2.2 min20:18
Nov 4, 2025Budget and Finance Committee22.6 min0:26
Nov 4, 2025City Council0.4 min52:38
Oct 29, 2025City Council3.5 min34:44
Oct 28, 2025City Council0.1 min49:34

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 Yaroslavsky’s voice at 80 meetings across seven bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Yaroslavsky was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Katy Young Yaroslavsky’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 Yaroslavsky 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 Yaroslavsky or of Los Angeles alone.