The Los Angeles City Council on June 6 approved two closed‑session recommendations to pay legal claims against the city, together totaling roughly $3,886,000, and recorded votes on several other agenda items with limited public discussion.

Councilmember Mike Yaruslavsky, the council’s budget committee chair, read the amounts for the two settlement items. He said the recommendation for item 7, in the case identified in the record as “Sward ProCopp v. City of Los Angeles,” was to pay $1,636,000.62 “más intereses que se acumulen.” He said the recommendation for item 8, in a case described as “sherding sheriff v. City of Los Angeles,” was to authorize legal expenses up to $2,250,000.

Those two items were considered in closed session and then brought to the full council for votes. The council voted on items 7 and 8 together; the result shown in the public record was 13 in favor. A subsequent request to send item 7 and item 8 immediately forward was made and reflected in the record.

Earlier in the meeting the council also voted to approve items 2 through 5 in a single roll call; the minutes reflect an 11‑yes vote on that block of items though the transcript does not specify the matters covered by each numbered agenda item. Later, a separate action on item 1 was opened, closed and tabled with a recorded tally of three in favor (the transcript records “3 a favor”); the record does not provide additional detail about item 1’s content.

The council noted that the mayor’s veto message remains pending and the budget was still with the mayor’s office, so no final action on the overall city budget occurred during the meeting.

The meeting record identifies the two closed‑session court matters by the labels read aloud during the session and the exact dollar amounts cited by the budget committee chair. No further explanation of claim facts or payment sources appears in the public transcript.