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The settlement and its dollar amount were disclosed in open session after the closed-session vote. The clerk read the vote tallies: on reconsideration the roll call showed nine ayes and two noes and the council instructed the city attorney to complete the settlement in accordance with the council action.

Because the discussion and deliberation that produced the recommendation occurred in closed session, the transcript contains only the public procedural record of the votes and the council's instruction to implement the city attorney's recommendation. The council recorded approval \"forthwith\" following the second roll call.

Councilmembers used the public roll-call statements to document the disposition of the item; no additional open-session debate or details of the closed-session negotiation are in the public transcript.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Regular City Council - 04/26/00 pt2 only","oneSentenceSummary","In closed session the council considered a settlement recommendation and, after a motion to reconsider, approved a settlement of $125,000 in the case of Eugene Hart et al. v. City of Los Angeles by recorded vote.","taxTitle","Los Angeles City, Los Angeles County, California","taxId",4025,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6586532,"Council renews dog-license canvassing contract month-to-month while considering in-house alternative",160,3442000,3602000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666&start=3442&end=3602","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666/thumbnail_3442000.jpg","/articles/6586532/Los-Angeles-City/Los-Angeles-County/California/Council-renews-dog-license-canvassing-contract-month-to-month-while-considering-in-house-alternative","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586532-6ccd781797297b283321222b70189a12/orig.mp4?Expires=1773618393&Signature=N3DSLJAN3WDcr7OoeaDImirvfLVbS~UKB4ddTARVIqfqsj8FG7InxBC-WLrhQ26V-pOvR6JOL8t6sMs2haH35GTBbUvPAqrW29BtGYjrg5AycijNQmxnobCNzrSUsFn~~px9C5tsgJkwmR5NXtqTDDfWHIV0Y3o~DNB3Rb8aTMzepBsTM5bybsFWylLvW0EojKsS8PyRzm1MpJJ~4Z8oKG3QYBfOcW7iiLDabbO3~Deq2jCTv7Zc6yOw-5IQW1hIUWhmg80wpuygvBOLKTmMALMs44dj1o4l-MovxiqUkuWMsuyFHaLExKObL49mbT8k9p5W27Mfv9n-4nWIAFtz~Q__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Los Angeles City Council approved a month-to-month renewal of the city's dog-licensing canvassing contract to avoid a lapse while the administration and relevant committees evaluate whether to bring the function in-house.

A member of the public, Lois Newman, told the council that license counts have fallen since the program was outsourced (the city had 225,000 licensed dogs in 1976, she said, versus a current count of about 160,000) and urged the council to take the work in-house, noting the county's higher licensing totals. Newman also argued the contract as written did not meet the original RFP's intent to canvass the entire city.

Councilmember Misikowski said the month-to-month renewal preserves continuity while staff determine if the Department of Animal Regulation can assume the canvassing function; she noted the department requested in-house provision previously but that the work had not been budgeted. Councilmember Jackie Goldberg said she would support a month-to-month renewal but asked that the matter be referred to personnel (and public safety committee) to study bringing the function in-house.

On roll call the council approved the month-to-month renewal (recorded vote noted in the transcript as 10 ayes). The council directed that the issue continue to be reviewed in committee and that staffing and budgeting implications be examined in the next budget cycle.","The council voted to renew the city's dog-licensing canvassing contract month-to-month to avoid a lapse while staff and committees consider whether to bring the function in-house, following public comment urging in-house administration and higher licensing counts under county-run systems.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6586536,"Council establishes process for responding to LAFCO data requests and renames ad hoc committee",787,3716000,4503000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666&start=3716&end=4503","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666/thumbnail_3716000.jpg","/articles/6586536/Los-Angeles-City/Los-Angeles-County/California/Council-establishes-process-for-responding-to-LAFCO-data-requests-and-renames-ad-hoc-committee","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586536-1f92bcb5af8ec35b6d7603a4da86d04e/orig.mp4?Expires=1773618393&Signature=lu99pT-u4PbZRKMKCz6jb4EdXAyGfvIP~VMokt~MoQN8Ni1wiDNsyHxcmO8zBJ~caYj~G1Lv8AMeSCh54mu05SLuqDTr-fvKFFFD6y-ZgzJfvtRyc-JWyLuCUgFUvyKvWzY2x47ToyESkXii9ym8XMaQoDP3oYgTWQsupIO1OHO9IAXuf1jmcRrHkHcXHBK~b3rY54qsANX2U3Vk5-4ZxHwVkf2BlwS3HrOKB~ORdZQoTfxFq0I5mRABKpy7QDXXly1zKf4e7GwnnWXS1go8XGvAmxeL0iYwWFI7ECX40FHzKycboS2MzP-bPhJ4AsrobswG4XZVYDEb64ULb-EU0Q__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Los Angeles City Council approved a staff-recommended process to handle requests for information and data from the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) related to proposed special reorganizations, including actions in the San Fernando Valley and the Harbor/Wilmington area. The council also adopted the committee's recommended name change to the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Reorganization.

City staff described a \"clearing house\" process in which departmental data requests would be routed to the City Administrative Officer (CAO) and the mayor's office for review to determine whether policy issues or appropriations were implicated. If additional resources or policy determinations are required, the matter would be reported to the ad hoc committee and the mayor and then to the council; if not, departments with CAO assistance would prepare the data and transmit it through the mayor and the ad hoc committee to the council for response to LAFCO.

Councilmembers emphasized the importance of keeping the process public and timely. Councilmember Misikowski asked that the ad hoc committee name be changed to reflect \"Special Reorganization,\" and the council approved that change. Councilmember Zbornich moved an amendment requiring that the clearing house notify the ad hoc committee within 30 days if a requested LAFCO data item cannot be completed within 90 days; the amendment was incorporated and the motion carried on a recorded vote.

Officials said they will dedicate staff resources to the function, including at least two full-time staff assigned to help respond to LAFCO requests, and emphasized the city's legal requirement under state law to provide requested information. LAFCO representatives present at a prior meeting were quoted in council discussion as seeking assurance that the city would provide timely and accurate data.

The council approved the procedure and the name change by recorded vote and directed staff to implement the flow of information and the reporting timeline included in the adopted motion.","The council approved a staff flowchart that centralizes and sequences responses to Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) information requests, assigning review through the CAO and ad hoc committee and adopting a new committee name: Ad Hoc Committee on Special Reorganization.",{"_33":100,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":101,"_41":102,"_43":103,"_45":104,"_47":105,"_49":106,"_51":107,"_53":108,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":109,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":110,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6586541,"Council adopts committee report on LA Bridges, agrees to evaluation and continued funding pending review",2299,1281000,3580000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666&start=1281&end=3580","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666/thumbnail_1281000.jpg","/articles/6586541/Los-Angeles-City/Los-Angeles-County/California/Council-adopts-committee-report-on-LA-Bridges-agrees-to-evaluation-and-continued-funding-pending-review","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586541-375158c9c1639d1deec8896984359ca2/orig.mp4?Expires=1773618393&Signature=FLUVQmgkJwmt0ExMp6e-Oy1X9sk83IK2qiW5KziPNtNmcVS4SSv0sBZH3uanVS4sD20N~icZxvjeSVNgrf8RvYr1MwlsdoA9hWeUdkq5uJ0olVHqG~tLBaJDC3tZBVCGKgbcI1X6wh1lo3MW4yCQN6sGDMQib11chC7WCLhpgjve6SwkGGzQUXtLZJmm4HxvrsdV~2tA1QpS73lFxHWj-69loKJvL4Tk4CCtFDSUaqyqC0EMipqBGKAY1y2r30j5APs0l7LdRGHdPubYFqmIWbfxVZEoDG7T7jkwIPwBP-E5Fb7Q5T2-wDMLs41oVtWitE-7p0Ms3yas7elW9P9j0Q__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Los Angeles City Council adopted a committee report on the LA Bridges anti-gang and after-school collaboratives after hours of public testimony from program staff, police officers, educators and residents. The motion, advanced by the committee chaired by Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas and amended with a set of friendly amendments, passed on a recorded vote.

The committee report directs a fiscal review, administrative reforms at the Department of Community Development (CDD), and an outcomes evaluation to be completed and reconsidered by the council in six months (the committee's timeline as discussed). The council approved the report as amended after debate about funding continuity, evaluation timing and program oversight.

Supporters of LA Bridges told the council the program provides in-school and home-visit case management, bilingual counseling, after-school clubs and referral networks that connect youths to services. Dr. Curran Wharf of Children's Hospital Los Angeles described the program's community-driven design and tied investments in prevention to reductions in homicide and serious injury among youth, saying homicide remains \"the single leading cause of death for young people in Los Angeles County\" and offering cost figures cited in testimony (\"each gunshot wound costs the county about $30,000\" and \"each year in prison costs about $30,000 to $40,000\"). Case managers and school staff described home visits, mediation and school-based supports that they said prevented escalation into gangs.

Councilmembers stressed the need both to keep effective collaboratives running and to fix programs that are not meeting outcomes. Controller Rick Tuttle explained his office's audit findings and warned that extending contracts for a full year without a clear six-month improvement deadline could blunt leverage for reforms. Councilmember Feuer offered an amendment to ensure the eventual overseers have authority to recommend program substitutions if specific collaboratives fail to improve.

Councilmember Jackie Goldberg pressed for certainty about funding continuity for critical bilingual case managers and said she would support the committee report if it ensured a full year of funding for those positions; members discussed whether the committee report continued funding generally but did not guarantee funding for each specific site.

After colloquy about the committee report language and assurances that the item continued funding for Bridges generally but left individual program renewals subject to review, the council voted (recorded roll indicated 12 ayes) to adopt the committee report as amended and move forward with the evaluation and administrative changes.

Next steps listed in the committee directions include CAO/CLA involvement in evaluation design, CDD reforms for contract compliance and collection of more reliable program data, and a council reconsideration at the end of the review period to determine which programs will be continued, adjusted, or replaced.

The council repeatedly distinguished between continuing funding for the Bridges initiative in the near term and guaranteeing continuation of every specific collaborative without review.","After extensive public testimony from program staff, police and schools, the City Council adopted a committee report that keeps LA Bridges funding in place while directing fiscal and programmatic reviews, evaluations, and administrative reforms to be completed before a reconsideration date.",{"_33":112,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":113,"_41":114,"_43":115,"_45":116,"_47":117,"_49":118,"_51":119,"_53":120,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":121,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":122,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6586546,"City Council opens process to consider Chase Knowles Apartments as historic-cultural monument",672,514000,1186000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666&start=514&end=1186","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5479108-9bc1aef2f643a3fb000ff150ca30f666/thumbnail_514000.jpg","/articles/6586546/Los-Angeles-City/Los-Angeles-County/California/City-Council-opens-process-to-consider-Chase-Knowles-Apartments-as-historic-cultural-monument","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6586546-a3e526cd6b7728355818976d148d9e8f/orig.mp4?Expires=1773618393&Signature=EdawMsF7W0GFpwBYmticGgOfgxmsG2TVdIcqImjNlKEPLqq79kX7nsC9d10LfLaF4kWDvioU5e41JhosqbFMhO07VC3yQRFNTMh1TYpi9uuSETiGBsf2qEhCijF0EoyQRy6NyB9OeZ6TcQB69M2Duf3zbVapd5r3SFINa3iHJTNXLjVkly8KZjK8tPRhiZ5Wcvuo6eVcBHTO~bk6Aq9x5YMiaGNnyAseGxRHYduMHQRDNEEMBsbKk6Qjl3-gHXE8KDX7zmwVRIH-mhp7CMHE9XoC9YmaV76NyGBt-n-FaTArZmudXeT5tuB4szn~RpOYVVsAlcugpQzktjpvkBPZpw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Los Angeles City Council voted to initiate a review to consider designating the Chase Knowles Apartments in Hollywood as a Historic-Cultural Monument, council members said during a packed public hearing and after hearing residents, preservationists and the property owner.

The action opens the city's formal review process for historic-cultural monument status; it does not itself designate the property or prohibit alterations or demolition. Councilman Eric Feuer introduced the motion and the council approved the item on a recorded vote.

Preservation advocates, led by Ken Bernstein of the Los Angeles Conservancy, urged the council to begin the designation process. Bernstein said an independent architectural historian, Teresa Grimes, prepared a detailed nomination and asked council members to tour the complex. He told the council, \"This is an exceptional place,\" and argued the complex exemplifies mid-century garden-city planning.

Representing the property owner, attorney Ben Resnick of Jeffrey Mangels Butler & Marmaro said the ownership does not believe the property merits designation and called the timing \"very suspect\" because the owner planned demolition and relocation of tenants. Resnick told the council that Legacy Partners has offered affected senior tenants up to $15,000 to relocate (\"three times the amount required by state law\"), that $10,000 had been offered to families, and that a full-time relocation coordinator is available.

Resident speakers and local community development leaders urged preservation or at least a thorough review. Ellen Michael, speaking for Chase Knowles residents, said there are funding options for historic projects and \"there is a possibility, a very real probability, that this project can be preserved.\"

Council discussion emphasized that the council action begins a process: it sets benchmarks for evaluating future changes and would make incentives and review mechanisms available but does not itself determine the final outcome. The council took the roll and the item was approved (recorded vote noted in the meeting transcript as approved on the roll call). Council members repeatedly noted the motion is only to \"initiate the process\" and that designation, incentives, and any city acquisitions or restrictions would follow the established review and hearing process.

Next steps identified by staff and members include a Cultural Heritage Commission review and site tours for council members; the formal designation process will include additional public hearings before any final determination.

Clarifying details captured in the hearing include that Chase Knowles is a mid-century complex built in 1949, described in the hearing as a 260-unit project sprawling across about 13 acres; the owner said relocation offers include up to $15,000 to some seniors and $10,000 to families and persons with disabilities, plus a relocation coordinator. The council explicitly recorded that the vote \"initiates a process\" and does not itself prevent demolition or guarantee preservation.

The council did not reach any final preservation decision at this meeting; the item was referred into the historic-cultural monument process for further review and public hearings.","The Los Angeles City Council voted to begin the process to consider designating the Chase Knowles Apartments in Hollywood as a Historic-Cultural Monument, initiating a review that could affect a planned demolition and redevelopment but stopping short of final designation.","actionData","errors"]

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