Curren Price
Wave Staff and Wire Reports
LOS ANGELES — Six days after being hospitalized, City Councilman Curren Price was absent from the City Council meeting Oct. 7.
Price was taking by paramedics to a hospital Oct. 1 when he needed medical attention during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Los Angeles Convention Center expansion project, a spokesman for his office said. He was reported suffering from dehydration.
Price is “resting and recovering” at home, Angelina Valencia-Dumarot, director of communications for Price’s office, told City News Service in a text message Oct. 2. Valencia-Dumont said Price serving District 9 continues without interruption.
“He remains focused on the meaningful issues that matter to neighbors — mobilizing after a recent fire, connecting residents with jobs at next week’s Fall Call for Completion Job Fair, and preparing for the inaugural Latino Carnaval in South Central on Oct. 11 at South Park — a historic celebration of culture, music and family that reflects the heart of our community,” Valencia-Dumarot said in her statement.
Price, 74, was among multiple city officials at the downtown convention center Oct. 1 when he was taken ill. He appeared to become dizzy as people were speaking at the event, and Mayor Karen Bass — who previously worked as a physician assistant — helped tend to him.
Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to the scene, placed the councilman in a wheelchair and took him to a waiting ambulance.
The fire department said only that paramedics responded to the Convention Center and took one person to a hospital in fair condition.
Price has represented the Ninth District, which includes most of South Los Angeles and Exposition Park, since 2013. He previously served in the state Assembly and state Senate and on the Inglewood City Council.
He was charged in 2023 with multiple public corruption counts alleging he voted to approve projects involving developers who had paid money to a consulting company owned by Price’s wife. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 3, when a hearing will be held to determine if there is enough evidence for him to stand trial.
