Sun Valley Environmental Justice Improvement Area
- stricter environmental enforcement on industrial businesses.

- tightens the land-use application process to curb the number of industrial businesses in an overburdened area.

- studies the air pollutants of businesses directly affecting residents.

Established City’s First Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard
- formalizes a system to ensure Department of Water and Power uses cleaner sources of energy like wind and solar.

- secures cleaner air for future Angelenos

Task Force on Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution
- educates community members and city departments on modern-day slavery including sweat shops, forced prostitution and domestic servitude.

- partners with federal department of Health and Human Services to train over 30,000 city employees on victim identification.

- creates largest municipal coalition in the nation to combat human trafficking, a crime that has surpassed the trafficking of guns.

Task Force on Animal Cruelty
- city’s first task force solely dedicated to animal abuse.

- found resources to implement the task force which includes LAPD, Animal Services, and the City Attorney’s Office.

- investigates blood-sports like dog and cockfighting and studies the link between these crimes and gang activity.

- task force’s first felony animal abuse conviction locked up a well known gang member for three years who wouldn’t have served only a year for battery of a police officer.

District-wide Clean-up and Bulky Item pick-up campaign
- in the first year, picked up a record-breaking 1350 tons of trash and bulky items from the streets of the Valley.

- to date, over 4600 tons have been picked up from valley streets.

- established community outreach campaign on free bulky item pick-up and city’s info line 3-1-1.

Ad-hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development
- identified over $2 million dollars for Bridges II gang intervention program.

- championed initiative to create an Urban Affairs Department to study the city’s existing gang intervention programs and will require an accountability test to see if those programs are effective.

Garnered City’s First Business Tax Reform Package as Chair of Business Tax Reform Committee

- 61% of small business owners see significant tax relief (About 130,000 small businesses in LA)

- owners making $100,000 or less will be exempt from business tax

- individuals classified as “talent” who make $300,000 or less will be exempt from business tax.

- process to file city taxes is simpler by consolidating the 75 fund categories to 7