City Council

(16) 23-1380 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE REPORT relative to deploying and coordinating pilot library cooling centers across the City for Heat Season 2025. Recommendations for Council action: 1. REQUEST the Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA), City Administrative Officer (CAO), Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), and Climate Emergency Mobilization Office (CEMO) to report to Council on a feasibility analysis for necessary staffing and existing funding in the LAPL budget to support a phased expansion of this pilot program. This report should include an overview of existing funding that can be used to cover staffing costs and critical supplies during the expansion of this program. 2. INSTRUCT the CEMO and the CAO to seek all available Federal and State grants that can be used to offset the costs of this program. 3. INSTRUCT the LAPL to add three more library cooling centers for a total of eight sites, for Heat Season 2025, using existing funding in LAPL's budget. These additional centers should be focused in disadvantaged areas that experience on average higher temperatures during the summer, including considering Sun Valley and Van Nuys Library branches as options for cooling centers, along with one other site in South Los Angeles. 4. INSTRUCT the CEMO and LAPL to conduct outreach messaging notifying Angelenos that libraries serve as cooling centers during extreme heat days, and providing a list of libraries serving as cooling centers under this program. Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the CEMO. Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.