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City Council approves multiple agenda motions, waives assessment fees and adopts substitute motion for community fair
Summary
At its Nov. 5 meeting the Los Angeles City Council approved a set of consent items, waived administrative assessment fees, voted to reconsider and refer one telecom-related item for further review, and adopted a substitute motion clarifying a community fair; separate emergency street-closure requests were also approved.
The Los Angeles City Council on Nov. 5 approved several consent items and individual motions, including waiving administrative fees connected to an assessment, adopting a substitute motion clarifying a community fair in the Eighth District and approving an urgent street-closure request for a community event.
Councilmembers first approved items 3 through 11 (committee recommendations) on a voice/roll call vote recorded as 12 ayes. The council also approved items 12 through 26 by a 12-0 vote when considering matters for which public hearings had not been held.
Councilmember Hahn moved to waive the administrative fees associated with an assessment listed as item 2; the motion was approved without objection and recorded as 12 ayes. A point of clarification immediately afterward confirmed that the motion as amended included the waiver of fees.
Councilmember Rudy Thomas successfully moved reconsideration of items 12 and 21; that motion carried 12-0. Later on the same agenda the council received and acted on a substitute motion for item 12 that directed one subpart (number 1c of the committee report) to be referred back to ITGS (Information Technology and Government Services) for further review; the referral passed on a 12-0 vote. The substitute motion for item 21 — clarifying language for a community fair sponsored in the Eighth District — was adopted on a 13-0 vote.
Separately, Councilmember Pacheco made an urgent (Rule 23) motion to allow a street closure tonight for a Home Back Youth Center community event on First Street between Cummings and Chicago and to direct the Department of Transportation to close the street and provide staffing; the council first adopted the required findings (13 ayes) and then approved the street-closure motion (13 ayes).
Votes recorded in the meeting transcript and roll calls are summarized below.
Votes at a glance
- Items 3–11: approved (roll call) — 12 ayes. Motion from the floor to adopt audits committee recommendations.
- Items 12–26: approved (roll call) — 12 ayes. These were items without public hearings; the council deemed the public hearing satisfied and approved them en bloc.
- Item 2 (assessment administrative fees): waiver approved — 12 ayes. Motion called special by Councilmember Hahn to waive administrative fees associated with the assessment. The council confirmed the amendment included fee waiver.
- Motion to reconsider items 12 and 21: approved — 12 ayes. Motion by Councilmember Rudy Thomas to reconsider these items to allow amendments and corrections.
- Item 12 (substitute/referral): part of committee report (1c) referred back to ITGS for further review — 12 ayes. Substitute motion put the 1c subpart under further review to address industry concerns.
- Item 21 (substitute clarifying community fair, Eighth District): substitute adopted — 13 ayes. Motion by Councilmember Rudy Thomas to clarify that the community fair is sponsored in the Eighth District.
- Rule 23 urgent street-closure motion for Home Back Youth Center community event (First St. between Cummings and Chicago): findings approved — 13 ayes; motion to close street and provide staffing approved — 13 ayes. Motion by Councilmember Pacheco; council recorded that the department required council action before proceeding.
Context and procedure notes
Several motions were handled under regular procedural rules: items for which public hearings had been held required no reopening of the hearings, and items without hearings were deemed to have their hearings satisfied when no members of the public requested to address the council on those items. Where substitute motions were circulated or discussed (items 12 and 21), the council paused for distribution and review; public comment was taken while members awaited documents to be handed out.
The council used verbal motions in two instances (including the urgent street closure), and members recorded roll-call votes for the items noted above.
Sources: Los Angeles City Council meeting transcript, Nov. 5, 2002 (roll calls and motions as recorded).
