The Los Angeles City Council on Aug. 1 approved a budget and finance committee report as amended, adopted dozens of recommended legal settlements and disposed of multiple consent items en masse while holding one ordinance for a week.

Council President gave the roll call and the body voted to adopt the Budget and Finance report as amended (motion shown on the record as Motion: Yaroslavsky, Harris-Dawson; amendment: Padilla, Rodriguez). The vote on the amended report was recorded as 11 ayes.

In closed-session-derived actions, the council approved settlement payouts in a series of cases recommended by the City Attorney. The list read into the record included awards or approvals up to the following amounts: $600,000 (Estate of Alejandro Valencia Mendez et al.), $110,000 (Dakota Sal v. City of Los Angeles), $200,000 (Koby Yakoff v. City of Los Angeles), $215,000 (Ilian Balfour v. City of Los Angeles), $975,000 (Christine Havelman et al. v. Tarzana Treatment Centers), $150,000 (Gilbert Pinnat v. City of Los Angeles), $200,000 (Hermine Gilda Nora Havana v. City of Los Angeles), $280,000 (Tamara Bittner v. City of Los Angeles), $375,000 (Norma Elizabeth Gonzalez et al. v. City of Los Angeles), $500,000 (John Neal v. City of Los Angeles), $650,000 (Syed Yosef Hussain Aladili v. City of Los Angeles), $1,500,000 (Jason Armendariz v. City of Los Angeles), $3,701,084.19 plus interest (Brenda Baca v. City of Los Angeles), and a range of smaller amounts including $150,000 and $95,957.54 reported for other matters. The council recorded a roll call of 12 ayes when these closed-session recommendations were taken up as a block.

Separately, item 14 was called for a separate vote and passed 10–2 (10 ayes, 2 no). The council also voted on items 2–5, 10–13, 15–18 and other consent items en masse earlier in the meeting; those votes were recorded on the public transcript as passing with unanimous or near‑unanimous tallies (roll calls indicated 12 ayes or 11 ayes depending on the block).

Item 1, an ordinance for which public hearing was noticed, was held over one week to Friday, Aug. 8, 2025 at the council’s request.

The meeting record shows the clerk read the case names and recommended settlement amounts into the public record before council action; council did not provide mover/second information for each closed-session recommendation on the public audio transcript. The City Attorney’s recommendations and the precise settlement amounts are entered into the council file as read aloud during the meeting.