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Council authorizes emergency actions to salvage recreation projects, asks for detailed reports
Summary
The council approved a motion directing departments to move quickly to preserve state-funded recreation projects at risk, authorized departmental grant acceptance and environmental work, and continued substantive review to next Tuesday with a request for detailed inventories and fixes.
The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a motion intended to salvage multiple recreation and parks projects identified as at risk and directed affected departments to take immediate steps to preserve funding.
Council Member Padilla summarized a partial inventory and told colleagues the projects listed so far total ‘‘3 and a half to $4,000,000’’ in recreational parks work. He asked colleagues to support a motion that would authorize the general manager to accept and execute any grant agreements necessary to implement the identified projects, instruct Recreation and Parks (with Bureau of Engineering help) to prepare outstanding environmental documents, and request each council office to review the status of projects in their districts.
City staff — including representatives from the chief executive staff, Recreation and Parks, Bureau of Engineering and the City Attorney’s Office — told the council applications and environmental documents for several projects were incomplete or not yet submitted, placing the projects at risk of losing state funding. The council directed staff to accelerate an inventory of at-risk projects and to identify the specific problems for each project so solutions can be implemented promptly.
The clerk recorded 12 ayes on the motion. The council approved the described emergency authority and continued substantive consideration to the next Tuesday meeting, asking the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) and departments to provide a detailed report addressing project inventories, dollar amounts, immediate salvage steps and systemic departmental issues that hindered timely submission.
