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\"We have passed through communities handing out red cards, visited businesses, clinics, schools, markets and communities where our immigrants live, work and visit,\" Council Member Monica Park said during the presentations portion of the council meeting. \"These families are afraid to come get the resources they need.\"

The Westside Food Bank told the council its client counts have fallen in some neighborhoods since enforcement actions increased. \"For more than 40 years West Side Food Bank has provided nutritious food to anyone who needs it,\" Ashley Bridgward said. \"We saw a drop — in one neighborhood we served 150 families before and now only 100 — because people are afraid to leave their homes, even when they need food.\"

Bridgward said the organization has shifted to emergency fairs and mobile markets, and volunteers are delivering groceries to homes to reduce household economic strain. \"Giving food free can save a family about $300 a month,\" she said, adding that the savings can be the difference between paying rent and losing a home.

Speakers representing Filipino and other immigrant-worker organizations described raids at worksites and small businesses. \"We've had 38 car-wash sites raided since June 6 and 74 workers detained,\" said Angelina Soriano Verzosa, identified in the meeting as executive director of the Filipino Workers Center. She described cases in which agents wore masks and lacked visible identification, and she and other speakers said families are having trouble locating detained relatives and accessing legal assistance.

Council Member Rodrigo Soto Martínez spoke of communities experiencing large-scale enforcement operations and said those actions are eroding residents' ability to access services. Several speakers urged the city to insist that local contractors and city facilities not permit federal agents unfettered access and to require identification and written orders when enforcement is sought on city property.

Council Member Imelda Padilla told colleagues she intended to introduce a motion asking for clarification of protocols, including how city departments — from airport operations to police — should respond when unmarked vehicles or personnel operate near city facilities. \"Nobody wants to answer how they are operating,\" Padilla said. \"We have to determine what we are doing and what we can do to ensure rules are followed at all places, including the airport.\"

Padilla said her office had documented an incident at the airport involving multiple unmarked vehicles and agents who did not identify themselves, and that community leaders requested a motion to clarify what city departments may do to protect residents and to confirm whether contractors are authorizing access.

Council members and several community leaders invoked a long-standing city policy, Special Order 40, which limits local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement; speakers said they want city departments and the police to ensure that policy is followed. \"We are asking police to do their work and follow Special Order 40,\" Park said.

No formal council vote on Padilla's motion was recorded in the meeting minutes; Padilla asked for colleagues' support and said she would circulate the language. Council staff and community advocates said they would provide names, dates and any documentation gathered so departments can investigate and respond.

Council members asked city staff to track detained individuals' families and to bring back information on what city departments can and cannot do in these circumstances. Padilla asked for support for her planned motion and said she would circulate the language to colleagues.

The presentations portion of the meeting included multiple speakers from affected neighborhoods and organizations, and several attendees asked the council to expand funding and support for food banks and legal-assistance programs as an immediate step to reduce harm while the council considers policy responses.

What happens next: Padilla said she would introduce formal motion language and seek co-sponsors. The council did not take a motion vote on this item during the June 27 meeting.

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- Item 1 (approval of minutes and related procedural items): Approved, 13 votes in favor. The council called and approved minutes from the June 20 meeting as part of routine business.

- Item 19 (motion and modification listed on the agenda): Approved with modification; the meeting recorded a vote of 13 in favor. The item was moved by Council Member Rodrigo Soto Martínez and seconded; no public debate was recorded before the vote.

- Item 25 (motion regarding medical services at city detention facilities): Approved, 13 votes in favor. Council approved a motion requesting a 30-day informational report on alternatives and costs after staff said seven vacant medical positions had been removed in the budget process.

- Item 31 (separate vote requested by a member): Approved; the meeting record shows 12 votes in favor and one recorded opposing vote. (The agenda item was called for a separate vote by a member and counted independently.)

- Item 32 (with a circulated modification labeled 32A): Approved with the modification; the meeting recorded 12 votes in favor when the council voted on 32A.

All recorded roll-call tallies were read during the meeting; the clerk announced the counts as part of each vote. Several votes were unanimous; where the meeting record showed fewer than 13 affirmative votes, the tally and any opposing vote were announced by the clerk at the time of the vote.

The council also took other procedural actions and heard presentations and public comment on several items during the June 27 meeting.

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\"Closing these clinics is unacceptable,\" a council member said while urging colleagues to preserve continuity of care for people held in city facilities. \"There are thousands who depend on this medical attention.\"

Balaika Phillips of the Department of Personnel told the council that personnel funding for medical professionals in the city's three detention facilities had been reduced during this year's budget process and that seven vacant positions had been removed. Phillips said the department expected to be able to preserve onsite medical services at the three centers for about six months under current resources while the city develops alternatives.

\"We contracted medical staff to provide this care,\" Phillips said. \"In the process of the budget this year, seven vacant positions of these medical professionals were eliminated ... we can estimate that we will be able to maintain these medical centers in the three detention centers for approximately six months before our funds to provide this medical care run out.\"

Council members said transfers between facilities and interrupted continuity of care could create medical risks for detained people and place additional burdens on other city services. Several members argued the city should not curtail medically necessary services in interim detention sites that often hold people for days pending court appearances.

Councilmember John McCusker (name as recorded in the transcript) was thanked by colleagues for placing the motion on the agenda; colleagues joined in urging the city to find ways to avoid cuts to clinical care. The council voted to approve the motion requesting a report on options and costs; the meeting record shows the item (listed as item 25) passed with 13 votes in favor.

The motion asks city departments to produce an informational report with alternatives to the proposed staffing and budget reductions and to include cost estimates and possible timelines. Council members requested the report also address which departments should be responsible for elements of care and whether police or county systems could be used to mitigate impacts.

What happens next: City staff committed to return an options and cost report within 30 days and to coordinate with police and other departments for portions of the report outside the Personnel Department's scope.

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