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Board of Referred Powers approves settlement after closed session, 3-1
Summary
The Board of Referred Powers reconvened in public to record a vote on a settlement reached in closed session and approved the motion 3-1, the council announced during the Dec. 14 Los Angeles City Council meeting.
The Board of Referred Powers returned to the council chambers on Dec. 14 to record a public vote on a settlement discussed earlier in closed session. The board approved the motion to accept the proposed settlement by a 3-1 vote.
Council members at the table reported the motion and second before the clerk called the roll. The chair asked for the clerk to call the roll and the clerk recorded the vote as “3 to 1,” after which the chair announced, “That adjourns the meeting of the board of referred powers.”
The vote took place at the start of the council’s regular session and was described on the record by the chair and the clerk. No further details of the settlement were disclosed during the public reconvening; the announcement only recorded the board’s formal public action to approve the settlement reached in executive session.
Because the decision followed an executive-session discussion, the council did not provide additional briefing or materials in open session. The board’s announcement concluded the limited public business required to comply with the legal requirement that certain executive-session decisions be recorded in public.
