Sunday, September 13, 2026

Altadena Sewer Easement, Eaton Fire Emergency Contracting Renewals and the County’s New Recovery Review Head to Supervisors Tuesday

From left, 4th District Supervisor Janice Hahn, 1st District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, 3rd District Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger and 2nd District Supervisor Holly Mitchell. [David Franco / Board of Supervisors]

The Board’s Sept. 15 agenda also carries a $20 million malpractice settlement, a motion to name deputy gangs in the Sheriff’s Department and a plan to implement the Hug Act in juvenile facilities

Los Angeles County supervisors meet Tuesday, Sept. 15, with an Altadena sewer easement vacation and renewals of Eaton Fire emergency contracting authority on the posted agenda, and the county’s new recovery review set for discussion.

The 9:30 a.m. meeting in Board Hearing Room 381B at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., is the Board’s first since its Sept. 8 session was cancelled, and the agenda posted Sept. 9 runs from a $20 million medical malpractice settlement to a motion to name deputy gangs inside the Sheriff’s Department.

Additions were posted on a supplemental agenda, which the Board’s Executive Office announced Friday, are taken up under a separate item.

The Altadena item, from the Department of Public Works, asks the Board to adopt a resolution vacating a sanitary sewer easement south of Loma Alta Drive and east of Dabney Street in the unincorporated community, after finding the easement is excess, no longer needed for public use and free of other public facilities. It is listed for adoption in Supervisorial District 5.

Two items ask the Board to find that the January 2025 windstorm and fire events, including the Eaton Fire, still constitute an emergency under Public Contract Code Section 22050 and to keep the Internal Services and Public Works directors’ delegated authority to award, extend and supplement contracts for response and recovery without competitive bids. Each requires four votes. The Board is also asked to continue its local emergency declarations, including the fire emergency proclaimed Jan. 7, 2025 and ratified Jan. 14, 2025.

The county said in a news release Friday that its second independent after-action review of the Eaton and Palisades fires, a McChrystal Group study of recovery and repopulation with 26 findings and 25 recommendations, is scheduled for discussion at the meeting. The supplemental agenda lists it as a report and presentation by the firm.

Supervisor Holly Mitchell’s motion on the Sheriff’s Department would ask the Sheriff, with County Counsel, the interim Inspector General and the Civilian Oversight Commission’s executive director, to develop within 120 days a framework for identifying and naming deputy gangs, cliques and secret subgroups, to publicly identify them without requiring criminal charges or convictions, and to build a public online reporting system. It would direct the Inspector General to inspect stations, custody facilities and specialized units and inventory any unofficial insignia within 90 days, and it asks for reports on bargaining obligations, liability and options if the department does not comply.

A motion by Supervisors Janice Hahn and Mitchell would implement Assembly Bill 1646, the Hug Act, by instructing the Chief Probation Officer to eliminate the requirement that contact visits at juvenile facilities receive prior approval, with the new policy in place by Jan. 1, 2027, to ramp up in-person contact visits through the rest of this calendar year, and to report back in 60 days and then in two six-month reports.

An 11 a.m. set matter brings a report on implementation of the new Department of Homeless Services and Housing, listed to receive and file, though Supervisor Hilda Solis has asked on the supplemental agenda that it be continued one week to Sept. 22.

Among administrative matters, County Counsel recommends a $20 million settlement of Tyler Amezquita Aispuro, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, a medical malpractice case over injury to a newborn during delivery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. A Probation Department contract with Securus for electronic monitoring, estimated at $35 million over five years beginning Nov. 1, 2026, returns after being continued from Aug. 4, Aug. 11 and Sept. 1. The Board is asked to approve 2027 medical, dental, life and disability rates for county-sponsored employee plans. The Chief Executive Officer asks that the State of Black Los Angeles County report be continued to Oct. 20, and the Chief Probation Officer asks that the Probation status report be continued to Oct. 20.

The appointments item includes several seats on the Measure ER Citizens’ Oversight Advisory Committee. In closed session, County Counsel asks that four existing cases be continued to Oct. 20 and that two anticipated-litigation matters be continued, one to Sept. 22 and one to Oct. 20; the Board also meets with its labor negotiators on talks with the Coalition of County Unions, SEIU Local 721 and other employee organizations.

Residents who want to address the Board can register at publiccomment.lacounty.gov beginning at 9 a.m. Tuesday and call (213) 444-2600, or submit written comment at publiccomment.bos.lacounty.gov. The meeting streams at bos.lacounty.gov and is televised Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 11 p.m. on KLCS.

Tuesday, Sept. 15, 9:30 a.m. Board Hearing Room 381B, Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St., Los Angeles. The meeting is open to the public. For more call (213) 974-1411 or visit bos.lacounty.gov.