The Los Angeles City Council used its Oct. 24 session to present a series of ceremonial recognitions honoring community leaders, cultural heritage and local food‑access work.

Councilmembers introduced a resolution and presented a certificate to Marianne Hayashi for decades of youth‑development work in Los Angeles. Councilmember remarks credited Hayashi with creating programs that connected thousands of young people to enrichment, arts and mental‑health resources; Hayashi, who addressed the chamber, recounted her family’s arrival in Los Angeles in 1949 and her long service with Central City Action or similar local programs. Councilmembers said a public space will be named in her honor (name referenced in remarks was not consistently pronounced in the transcript).

Councilmember Isabel Jurado led a recognition for Filipino‑American Heritage Month and introduced Ruby Ibarra, a Filipino‑American rapper and songwriter. Ibarra described her background in biotechnological science and said her music centers on the immigrant and Filipino‑American experience; the council presented Ibarra a certificate of recognition.

The council also conducted a citywide clergy appreciation segment. Members recognized a long list of faith leaders from across the city’s districts — including rabbis, Catholic priests and Protestant pastors — and highlighted local faith‑based services during crises such as immigration sweeps, homelessness and wildfires. Honorees named in remarks included Rabbi Rebecca Schatz, Father Mario Torres, Pastor Ryan Donald Lee and Pastor Robert Taylor; multiple councilmembers praised clergy who organized legal‑rights workshops, food distribution and community‑resilience programs.

Separately, the Food Policy Council and council sponsors marked Food Day and named local "good food" champions in each council district. Alba Velázquez, executive director of the Food Policy Council (spoken in the meeting as "Consejo de Póliza de Alimentos"), described the council’s work and cited program figures presented in remarks: 133,000 pounds of food distributed by a cited program, about 300 families served monthly at a Wilmington YMCA program, and weekly deliveries of roughly 50 food boxes from that site. Councilmembers emphasized protecting food vendors, noting that street vendors often provide culturally relevant fresh food in neighborhoods with limited options.

These were ceremonial presentations; no council votes or policy actions were recorded on these recognitions during the Oct. 24 meeting. The ceremonial segment concluded before the public‑comment period that followed.

Details in the meeting transcript contain variable spellings and pronunciations for some proper names and for the exact wording of proposed naming; the account above follows the council’s statements and the remarks made by honorees as spoken on the record.