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And I think that you are the perfect person to discuss for our first segment, which is to go to some of the most difficult meetings to witness and sometimes to access because some of them have been recorded.

Some of them have been attended virtually by elected officials when maybe they should have been there in person.

And even some of the locations of them have shifted up, obviously talking about the lineage fire and everything that's happened in Boyle Heights.

And I'm hoping we can...

Have a quick summary, but also just talk about like the presence at these meetings and what that's really meant to the community.

Right.

I think that, you know, the Boyle Heights community, Boyle Heights in East LA has been through a lot over the last three months.

Right.

Only

three months.

Oh, my God.

Right.

It's been three

months since the fire, the cleanup, and people really just trying to get access to information, right? I think one thing that the lineage fire really exposed was the differentiation of government, right? Depending on what streets you lived on adjacent to the fire, you were either calling 311 or 211 because you were a city of LA resident or a county resident.

And I think getting access to that information for so many people was really difficult.

And I think the Boyle Heights Beat team really did an excellent job trying to emphasize service over status, getting people access to resources, to information, to where these meetings were happening, where city officials and county officials were trying to give people updates on resources, air filters, business assistance for impacted communities.

And so, yeah, I think at the meetings that our Boyle Heights B team covered, you saw a lot of community frustration, a lot of folks asking really basic questions about who they need to call, right? Whether they're a city of LA resident or a county resident, what the status was on the cleanup and what potential penalties would be for lineage if they didn't meet the cleanup, which we saw they didn't hit many of the so-called markers that the city AQMD and other agencies had laid out for them.

And we're still reporting on what the impacts are for communities.

We're recording this today on a Friday.

Boyle Heights Beat was out inviting community to let them know what are the continuing impacts? What are the questions that you still have? What are the resources that you're in need of? Because, you know, you mentioned there were these community meetings, some of them virtual and some of them without elected officials actually showing up in person.

Like in one example, the mayor, Mayor Bass, convened a meeting and then she beamed in from Getty House.

So you could see like her in a mansion, sorry, but like, you know, as, you know, trying to represent, you know, the city and hear the concerns, but that's not that far away.

Like, why couldn't you go in person? And then the next meeting she convened, she didn't show up at all, even virtually, right?

Right.

And I think, again, that's the community really feeling disrespected and left out, right? Not prioritized.

And I think that you are the perfect person to discuss for our first segment, which is to go to some of the most difficult meetings to witness and sometimes to access because some of them have been recorded.

Some of them have been attended virtually by elected officials when maybe they should have been there in person.

And even some of the locations of them have shifted up, obviously talking about the lineage fire and everything that's happened in Boyle Heights.

And I'm hoping we can...

Have a quick summary, but also just talk about like the presence at these meetings and what that's really meant to the community.

Right.

I think that, you know, the Boyle Heights community, Boyle Heights in East LA has been through a lot over the last three months.

Right.

Only

three months.

Oh, my God.

Right.

It's been three

months since the fire, the cleanup, and people really just trying to get access to information, right? I think one thing that the lineage fire really exposed was the differentiation of government, right? Depending on what streets you lived on adjacent to the fire, you were either calling 311 or 211 because you were a city of LA resident or a county resident.

And I think getting access to that information for so many people was really difficult.

And I think the Boyle Heights Beat team really did an excellent job trying to emphasize service over status, getting people access to resources, to information, to where these meetings were happening, where city officials and county officials were trying to give people updates on resources, air filters, business assistance for impacted communities.

And so, yeah, I think at the meetings that our Boyle Heights B team covered, you saw a lot of community frustration, a lot of folks asking really basic questions about who they need to call, right? Whether they're a city of LA resident or a county resident, what the status was on the cleanup and what potential penalties would be for lineage if they didn't meet the cleanup, which we saw they didn't hit many of the so-called markers that the city AQMD and other agencies had laid out for them.

And we're still reporting on what the impacts are for communities.

We're recording this today on a Friday.

Boyle Heights Beat was out inviting community to let them know what are the continuing impacts? What are the questions that you still have? What are the resources that you're in need of? Because, you know, you mentioned there were these community meetings, some of them virtual and some of them without elected officials actually showing up in person.

Like in one example, the mayor, Mayor Bass, convened a meeting and then she beamed in from Getty House.

So you could see like her in a mansion, sorry, but like, you know, as, you know, trying to represent, you know, the city and hear the concerns, but that's not that far away.

Like, why couldn't you go in person? And then the next meeting she convened, she didn't show up at all, even virtually, right?

Right.

And I think, again, that's the community really feeling disrespected and left out, right? Not prioritized.