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Votes at a glance: Los Angeles City Council, May 11, 2001
Summary
Summary of formal actions taken or continued during the May 11 Los Angeles City Council meeting, including continuances and roll-call approvals. Notable votes: item 13 (DWP report) noted and filed (10-0) and item 15(k) (fee waiver for a charity run) approved 9-1.
Los Angeles — The City Council on May 11 took a series of procedural and final actions on the agenda. Below is a compact summary of actions taken at the meeting; details and context for debated items appear in separate reports.
Votes at a glance
- Minutes approval: Minutes were approved without objection.
- Continued items: - Item 8 (Beaumont Avenue/Estes Street Lighting District public hearing): continued to Wednesday, June 19. - Item 16 (requested by Council District 11): continued to May 15. - Item 21: continued to May 15.
- Reconsideration and referral: - Item 6 (reconsideration requested by Councilmember Hernandez): Council suspended the rules and voted to reconsider and refer the matter to the City Attorney; roll call recorded 10 ayes.
- Items approved after public hearings or committee review (no additional hearing requested): - Items 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 11: roll call recorded 10 ayes; approved as noticed.
- Items approved without public hearing (items 12–20, except 16 which was continued): - Items 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 20: roll call recorded 10 ayes; approved.
- Item called special and amended: - Item 10 (Downtown oversight report) was called special and amended to add Council District 14 to a mailing list oversight note and to request that the oversight committee proactively notify business improvement districts (BIDs) when it meets; council clarified that notifications do not confer voting authority. The amended item passed on roll call, 10 ayes.
- Item 13 (Department of Water and Power report): The council noted and filed the DWP report on unpaid wholesale energy sales and requested ongoing status reports; the roll call recorded 10 ayes. (See separate article for full details.)
- Item 15(k) (charity event fee waiver): Council approved a fee waiver connected to a breast-cancer fundraising run; the vote was 9 ayes, 1 no. Councilmember Laura Chick voiced concern and preferred a direct monetary contribution rather than a fee waiver of about $60,000 in city fees; other members, including Councilmember Ridley-Thomas, urged support for the event given its public-benefit purpose.
Procedural notes and next steps
- Several items were continued to the council’s next meeting(s) to allow for additional briefing or to await the presence of requesting council offices. - The council recorded multiple unanimous or near-unanimous roll-call approvals on noncontroversial items; where an item was called special, a councilmember explained the amendment on the floor prior to the roll call. - For contested or high-interest matters (for example, item 13 on DWP finances), the council requested follow-up reports and, in one case, scheduled a closed-session briefing for legal strategy.
Ending: The council completed action on the published agenda, saving time for public comment and scheduling follow-ups for continued or technically complex matters.
