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Council votes to restore 'City Administrative Officer' title to CAO
Summary
The council approved an ordinance to change the Office of Administrative and Research Services (ORS) back to the City Administrative Officer (CAO), with back-and-forth comments from council members and the CAO's office.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to restore the office name "City Administrative Officer" (CAO) in an ordinance that passed during the meeting.
Bill Fujioka, the city's administrative official, told the council the name better reflects the office's duties of preparing and monitoring the city's budget and providing objective analysis to both the mayor and the council. "We pride ourselves on our independent, objective and extremely accurate analysis of your city finances," Fujioka said.
Several council members who had served on the charter commission and had participated in drafting the new charter said the office-name change was not intended and had caused confusion. Councilmember Pacheco said he had argued on the charter commission to retain the CAO structure and supported restoring the name. "I did not ever want the CAO's office to change in any manner from the old dual reporting responsibilities that it had," he said.
Councilmember Zine and others urged the body to adopt the ordinance. The clerk recorded 13 ayes on the initial roll call; afterwards the clerk recorded an additional yes vote from a member who re-entered chambers, and the item was sent forthwith.
The ordinance directs the administrative office's name be changed back to the CAO; it does not change the office's statutory functions described in the new charter. The council asked that the public record reflect the vote and forwarded the ordinance for final processing.
