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Votes at a glance: council approvals, continuances and closed-session settlements
Summary
The City Council approved multiple consent items, continued several matters to later dates, and approved closed-session settlements totaling roughly $2.1 million across four cases.
Key council actions from Tuesday's session:
- Mayoral veto message (Item 1): The council received and filed the mayor's veto message (recorded vote: 14 ayes). The maker of a motion to send the veto to committee withdrew that motion and the item was received and filed.
- Consent and regular-agenda approvals: Items 2 through 8 (with one item called special and later handled forthwith) and items 10 through 28 (excluding items called special and those continued) were approved by recorded votes (multiple votes of 14 ayes noted in the transcript). Specific items called special were handled separately (see below).
- Continuances and scheduling: Item 10 was continued to December 21; Item 25 continued to December 18 (conflicting times noted in discussion but the clerk recorded continuances); Item 29 and Item 44 were continued to December 14; Item 37 was continued for one week (to the following Tuesday). The clerk announced other items would be forthwith as listed on the agenda.
- Latino Museum (Item 53): Councilmember Jan Perry introduced and the council approved an amended motion establishing a task force (members included the Department of General Services, the City Administrative Officer (CLA), Cultural Affairs, County of Los Angeles, state, MTA and representatives of the Latino Museum) to identify an alternative site and to provide a status report within 45 days (amendment approved 14 ayes; item as amended approved 14 ayes).
- Item 6: Carried forthwith after being called special; vote recorded as 14 ayes.
- Item 26 (welfare-to-work federal funding): Councilmember Garcetti called the item special and the council approved a motion urging renewal of federal welfare-to-work funding and legislative support; recorded vote noted as 13 ayes.
- Parking (Item 28): The council approved a residential preferential parking district for the Franklin Avenue area (14 ayes) with implementation conditions and a DOT report in six months (covered in a separate article above).
- Closed-session settlements (Item 52 a–d): The council approved four settlement motions in closed session and announced them forthwith: 52(a) settlement amount $804,000 (vote recorded in public: 12 ayes); 52(b) settlement amount $433,169.10 (12 ayes); 52(c) settlement amount $375,000 (12 ayes); 52(d) settlement amount $495,000 (12 ayes). The clerk announced these votes and that the actions were forthwith.
Ending: The session concluded with a number of procedural approvals, scheduling decisions, an amendment creating a Latino Museum task force, and four closed-session settlements totaling approximately $2,107,169.10.
