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Votes at a glance: Key actions from the March 27 Los Angeles City Council meeting
Summary
The council approved multiple routine and contested agenda items on March 27, including awards of bids, personnel-related pay ordinances, several ordinances and special-event fee waivers; it also continued one item and referred airport contracts to committee.
The Los Angeles City Council completed a full agenda on March 27. Below are key votes and outcomes taken during the meeting.
• Items 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8a: Approved after roll call on those items (open/close roll); tabulation recorded 10 ayes for these particular items where noted on the agenda.
• Item 9 (pipeline franchise bid): Awarded to Air Products and Chemical Incorporated. The clerk reported a single bid for $500 submitted in accordance with the Los Angeles Administrative Code; the council voted to award the bid (10 ayes on the motion to approve).
• Item 10 (bond sale resolution): Council adopted a resolution awarding a bond issue to Solomon, Smith & Barney for an aggregate principal amount of $10,200,000 with a reported true interest cost of 4.634371; approved by roll call (10 ayes reported on tabulation).
• Items 11 through 13: Item 11 (first consideration of an ordinance relative to a memorandum of understanding for firefighters and fire captains representation unit — special pay, hazard pay, assignment pay, longevity) passed after public hearing with a 12-0 vote. Items 12 and 13 (ordinances) were also approved 12-0 after the roll was called and no public comments were made.
• Items 14–34 (selected approvals): The council opened and closed roll calls on a series of non-public-hearing items; a set of items were approved with tabulated votes (10 or 12 ayes as noted on the roll calls). Items 36a and 37 were approved 10-0 earlier and item 36 was approved as amended.
• Item 24 (special events motions): A group of special-event fee waivers and co-sponsorships were approved (12-0); examples include Wild West Day (Kiwanis Club of Northridge) and a Ritchie Valens Hall of Fame induction event.
• Item 31: Continued for one day at the request of the motion’s author; council approved the continuance by unanimous consent.
• Item 35 and Item 1, 11–13: Public hearings had been held where noted; items were taken up and carried generally by recorded roll calls with 12 ayes where shown.
Why it matters: The meeting combined routine municipal business — bids, ordinances, special-event approvals — with higher-profile contested items that received extended public comment and separate coverage in this package (Pico Union library; Community Development Bank; LAX consultant contracts).
This summary lists council outcomes from March 27 as recorded in the meeting minutes and roll-call statements; where the transcript recorded only a tallied vote count and no individual member votes, this roundup records the official tallies as announced in the chamber.
