City Council

(47) 26-0906 RESOLUTION (HARRIS-DAWSON - JURADO - HERNANDEZ) relative to the Declaration of Local Emergency by the Mayor dated June 20, 2026 due to a major fire erupting at a cold-storage warehouse facility in the Boyle Heights Neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, pursuant to Los Angeles Administrative Code (LAAC) Section 8.27. Recommendation for Council action: ADOPT the accompanying RESOLUTION, dated June 26, 2026, to: 1. Resolve that a local emergency regarding impacts from the Boyle Heights warehouse fire existed in the City of Los Angeles (City) within the meaning of Los Angeles Administrative Code Section 8.21, et seq., at the time of the Mayor’s June 20, 2026, Declaration of Local Emergency, which the City Council hereby ratifies. 2. Resolve that because the local emergency, which began on June 17, 2026, continues to exist, there is a need to continue the declared state of local emergency, which the City Council hereby ratifies. 3. Instruct and request all appropriate City departments (including proprietary departments), agencies, and personnel to continue to perform all duties and responsibilities to represent the City in this matter to respond to and abate the emergency and prevent further harm to the life, health, and safety, and receive, process, and coordinate all inquiries and requirements necessary to obtain whatever State and Federal assistance that may become available to the City and/or to the citizens of the City who may be affected by the emergency. 4. Instruct the General Manager of the Emergency Management Department, as appropriate, to advise the Mayor and City Council on the need to extend the state of local emergency. 5. Resolve that, to the extent the public interest and necessity demand the immediate expenditure of public funds to safeguard life, health, or property in response to the local emergency and to support the emergency operations of the City and its departments (including its proprietary departments), agencies, and personnel (including mutual aid resources) in responding to the declared local emergency, the competitive bidding requirements enumerated in City Charter Section 371, and further codified in the LAAC, including LAAC Section 10.15 be suspended until termination of the state of emergency and solely with respect to purchases and contracts needed to respond to the declared state of emergency. 6. Direct and request City departments and agencies making purchases pursuant to the authority granted in paragraph five (5), above, to report every two weeks to the City Council regarding the purchases and contracts made during the prior two week period on the reasons justifying why such purchase or contract was necessary to respond to the emergency, including why the emergency did not permit a delay resulting from a competitive solicitation for bids or proposals, and why competitive proposals or bidding was not reasonably practicable or compatible with the City’s interests. 7. Instruct, to the extent feasible, Departments to track and document all costs associated with their response to this incident, including personnel, equipment, contractual services, and any other direct or indirect expenditures, and report such costs as part of the requested report back. 8. Instruct the City Clerk, unless and until Council directs otherwise or discontinues the state of emergency, to timely agendize this matter so that Council may consider whether to continue the state of emergency. 9. Instruct the City Clerk to forward copies of this Resolution to the Governor of the State of California, the Director of the Office of Emergency Services of the State of California, the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.