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Council adopts ordinance to map committee responsibilities under new charter
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council approved an enabling ordinance to align committee assignments with the new city charter, making technical corrections to department references and updating committee oversight responsibilities.
The Los Angeles City Council on Feb. 1 approved an ordinance that implements technical changes required by the city’s new charter to create and assign council committees.
The ordinance, offered as a substitute to correct references and make other technical edits, passed on a 13-0 vote. Councilmembers debated only the specifics of the technical changes and then voted to approve the substitute ordinance forthwith.
The measure updates which council committees oversee specific city functions, corrects agency names and references and removes an obsolete reference to the official salaries authority. For example, the ordinance transfers responsibility for acquisition and sale of city property from the Public Works Committee to the Information Technology and General Services Committee to reflect that asset management sits in General Services. It also fixes names such as changing references to the City Employees Retirement System to its correct full name, Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System.
Councilmember Chick introduced the substitute ordinance and said it “makes no changes in what we have today, other than a few technical changes,” and asked members to support it. The ordinance retains the existing committee structure for now, while the council retains authority under the charter to change committee numbers, sizes or chairs later by ordinance rather than by charter amendment.
The council voted 13-0 to approve the substitute ordinance and send it forthwith.
