Votes at a glance: Gay Games bid, Emmy sidewalks and several procedural items approved

The Los Angeles City Council recorded several formal outcomes during the meeting, including support for an international sporting event bid, special-event sidewalk closures for the Emmy Awards and routine procedural continuances.

Gay Games bid support: The council approved a request to support Los Angeles' bid to host the Federation of Gay Games (bid effort presented as "Los Angeles 2006"). Shaney Kramer, identified as Executive Director of Los Angeles 2006, said the bid delegation will travel to Johannesburg and asserted early economic estimates show a fiscal impact "of over $400,000,000 for our city." The council voted to send the request to the mayor; the transcript records the item as approved.

Emmy Awards sidewalk closures (Special 2): The council made the required findings for an item related to the Emmy Awards and approved additional sidewalk closures requested by the Police Department for the event scheduled on Sunday, Oct. 7. The city attorney explained the need to make findings because the additional closures were requested after the agenda was posted. The roll call for this item is recorded in the transcript as "10 eyes" and the special item was approved.

Procedural items: The council agreed to continue Item 6 (consented by Council District 10) until Nov. 9. One item (Item 25) was marked "receive and file" on the ground it had been acted on previously (Oct. 2/7 as stated in the record). Other routine roll calls and approvals were completed for consent and non-controversial calendar items.

These items were approved as discrete votes during the meeting; the transcript provides approval statements and partial roll-call language but does not include a full named tally for every item in the audio record excerpt.