Tuesday, June 9, 2026

LA County Supervisors Return Tuesday With Altadena Recovery Items on Crowded Agenda

After two cancelled meetings, the board will consider a brush-clearance motion for fire-impacted properties, an East L.A. oil-spill follow-up and a $20.4 million building purchase

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in downtown Los Angeles for its first regular session in three weeks, taking up an agenda that includes several Altadena fire-recovery items along with countywide business.

The agenda — the first since meetings on May 26 and June 2 were cancelled — includes a motion calling for efforts to address hazardous vegetation and brush clearance at fire-impacted properties in Altadena and the unincorporated Santa Monica Mountains, according to the meeting log posted on the board’s website.

The meeting will be held in Board Hearing Room 381B at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 W. Temple St. It will also stream live on the board’s website.

The agenda also lists an ordinance to designate Altadena’s Historic Highlands neighborhood as a county historic district,

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Roundtable Tonight Turns Altadena’s Fire Recovery Toward the Land Itself

Second event in LA Forum’s Alt:adena series gathers Tongva leaders, landscape designers, soil scientists and a salvage sawmill at Good Neighbor Bar

A public roundtable on rebuilding the land beneath Altadena — not just the houses on top of it — will convene Tuesday evening on the patio of Good Neighbor Bar, drawing together Indigenous land stewards, regenerative landscape designers, soil scientists and the sawmill milling fire-felled local trees into salvage lumber.

The event, called Alt:LAND, runs from 7 to 9 p.m. and is the second installment of a three-part roundtable series produced by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. Per press materials supplied to Pasadena Now, panelists are drawn from the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians — also known as the Gabrieleño-Tongva Band of Mission Indians — Altadena-based regenerative landscape firm Studio Petrichor, the Altadena Seed Library, the soil-health consultancy Soil Wise, and Boyle Heights sawmill Angel City Lumber.

According to the LA Forum,

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Altadena Outpaces Palisades on Early Recovery Markers, New L.A. County Report Finds

Pasadena Transit ridership runs above pre-fire baseline as 17-month update tracks reoccupation, displacement and a projected $73.6 million annual hit to local spending

Los Angeles County released its third quarterly economic update on the 2025 wildfire recovery on Monday, finding that the Eaton Fire area is showing earlier signs of return than Pacific Palisades on several measures, even as only a fraction of a percent of destroyed homes have been rebuilt and displacement assistance runs out for thousands of survivors.

The report, “Los Angeles Wildfires: An Economic Update #3,” was produced by the LA County Department of Economic Opportunity and the LAEDC’s Institute for Applied Economics. It is the third installment in a quarterly series tracking the Eaton and Palisades fires, which began January 7, 2025.

According to the report, 26.7 percent of destroyed structures across both fire areas have received rebuild permits — a pace on par with the fastest-recovering wildfires nationally, including the Tubbs and Marshall fires. But only 0.47 percent have completed reconstruction and received occupancy approval.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Mobile Recreation Van Brings Sports and Play to Altadena Children as Local Parks Remain Under Repair

A Super Bowl LVI legacy program rolls into the Bob Lucas Memorial Library, where dozens of kids spent the first day of summer break with games, music and an Olympic mascot

Dozens of Altadena children spent the first weekday of summer break Friday at the Bob Lucas Memorial Library & Literacy Center, where a mobile recreation program brought sports equipment, lawn games, music and an appearance by Sam the Olympic Eagle — the official mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics.

The free June 5, 2026, event was a stop by Park on the Move, a Super Bowl LVI legacy program operated in partnership by the Los Angeles Super Bowl LVI Host Committee, the County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Play Equity Fund. The program has concentrated recent activities in Altadena while the community’s parks remain under repair following the January 2025 Eaton Fire, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 19 people in and around the foothill community north of Pasadena.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

City to Require Sheriff’s Deputies at City Events to Follow Its Policies, Including Immigration Limits

The council added the contract condition June 8 to a $15.5 million, five-year supplemental law enforcement agreement with Los Angeles County.

[Updated]  Pasadena will require Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies hired for city events to follow Pasadena’s policies, including its immigration policies, under a contract condition the council added June 8.

The condition was attached to a routine consent-calendar item authorizing the city to spend up to $15.5 million over five years on supplemental law enforcement from the County of Los Angeles, provided through the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department — $5 million for major events and $10.5 million for New Year’s activities, covering July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2031. The council approved the consent calendar, with the added language, without objection.

Councilmember Tyron Hampton pulled the item for separate discussion and pressed his colleagues to write the city’s values into the agreement, arguing it “doesn’t hurt to put that in writing” with any agency the city contracts with.

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Wall Street Rates L.A. County Highly Even as Settlement Costs and Funding Cuts Mount

Based on a story by City News Service

Los Angeles County earned top-tier credit ratings on its next round of borrowing even as it faces a nearly $5 billion legal liability and cuts to federal and state funding — an endorsement that county officials said Monday would let it borrow at lower interest rates and save millions of dollars.

Fitch Ratings assigned the county its top grade of triple-A, while Moody’s gave an Aa1, its second-highest long-term mark, according to the Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector. Officials said they expect a comparably strong rating from S&P Global Ratings later this summer.

The grades apply to the county’s $700 million in 2026-27 Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes, Series A, scheduled for issuance on July 1. Such notes, like bonds, help governments finance infrastructure and other long-term investments and manage cash flow for day-to-day public services.

Government credit ratings function much like consumer credit scores. Strong investment-grade marks let the county draw a wider pool of investors and sell debt at lower interest rates,

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

PUSD Board Faces Budget — and Looming Consolidation Decision — at Thursday Meeting

Pasadena Unified’s June 11 regular meeting tees up the district’s $30-35 million in reductions ahead of a scheduled June 25 vote on school closures

The Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education holds its next regular meeting on Thursday, June 11, with the open session set to begin at 7 p.m. The district’s budget — the central, painful conversation that has dominated PUSD’s calendar for nearly a year — is on the agenda.

The district faces a $30 million to $35 million budget shortfall for the 2026-27 school year and a potential deficit approaching $71 million by 2027-28. The crisis is the product of several converging pressures: a structural deficit, rising operational costs, the expiration of one-time COVID-19 relief funds, and the unbudgeted costs associated with the Eaton Fire, which damaged or destroyed five PUSD campuses in Altadena. Underlying everything is a 23.4 percent decline in student enrollment over the past decade, from 17,267 students in 2014-15 to 13,228 in the current school year.

Monday, June 8, 2026

Pasadena Court Weighs Trump Administration’s Bid to Revive Dismissed California Voter-Data Suit

Arguments were heard mid-May. Three federal judges have yet to issue rulings

On a morning in May, three federal appeals judges in a Pasadena courtroom pressed a Justice Department lawyer on a single question: whether the Trump administration can compel California to surrender the personal data of its approximately 23 million registered voters.

The argument, heard May 19 at the Ninth Circuit’s Richard H. Chambers Courthouse on South Grand Avenue, put Pasadena at the center of a national fight over who controls Americans’ voter information.

The case, United States v. Weber, is part of what the administration describes as an effort to police state voter rolls — and what a federal judge has called an “unprecedented and illegal” attempt to gather the sensitive data of millions of Americans in a centralized federal database. No ruling has yet issued.

The dispute began in 2025, when the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division started demanding that states turn over their complete voter registration lists,

Monday, June 8, 2026

Pasadena Teachers Union Issues Statement Opposing School Board Recalls

On Sunday, June 7, the United Teachers of Pasadena released an unsolicited statement regarding current recall efforts underway against at least two trustees of the Pasadena Unified School District Board of Education.

The statement comes after a tumultuous period during which controversial emails between board members were released publicly and a high-stakes board meeting resulted in the board rejection of a key planning document for proposed school consolidations.

In its statement, the teachers union says it opposes current recall efforts.

There are two active recall campaigns targeting PUSD board members. Both — one aimed at board president Tina Fredericks and the other at district 4 trustee Scott Harden — are in the early organizational phases. Notices of intent to recall were physically served to Fredericks and Harden during the May 28 school board meeting. Neither petition has yet been certified by the Los Angeles County Registrar for ballot placement.

“As educators,” the union statement said, “we value stability because students learn best when districts and schools are focused on teaching and learning,

Monday, June 8, 2026

Federal Court Battle and Act of Congress Set Stage for Pasadena Council’s $6.6 Million Homeless-Grant Vote Monday

Fifteen federal homeless-services grants worth $6,639,358 — funding that survived a contested HUD policy reversal only after two federal lawsuits, a preliminary injunction, a First Circuit affirmance and an act of Congress — come before the Pasadena City Council for local authorization on Monday.

The agenda report from the Department of Housing asks the Council to authorize the City Manager to enter into 15 one-year agreements with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 2025 Continuum of Care grants, and to pre-authorize five future amendments adding the amount of annual funding awarded by HUD and extending each term by one year.

Approval, the report states, would “provide permanent housing and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing and who have previously experienced homelessness in Pasadena.”

The funds support permanent supportive housing, rapid rehousing, coordinated entry, system planning and administration, and the Homeless Management Information System database. The City’s Department of Housing is the Collaborative Applicant and Lead Agency for the Pasadena Continuum of Care,