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Council delegates CRA authority to agency administrator in technical amendment
Summary
The council approved a technical amendment to item 16 to change references delegating authority to the CRA to instead delegate authority to the administrator of the Community Redevelopment Agency.
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an amendment to item 16 that changes language delegating authority "to the CRA" so the authority is instead delegated specifically to the administrator of the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA).
The item was called special and an on‑the‑floor technical amendment was introduced to alter the delegating language. "It's basically a technical change, language, on 1a, delegating authority to the CRA is the current language. ... to change it to delegate authority to the administrator of the CRA," a councilmember said during debate.
Councilmember Holden said he had confirmed with the incoming administration that the change posed no problem and said the administrator would be able to act more quickly than the board. "If you grant that to the administrator, then that means the administrator can act, without any consideration as to what the board would do," Holden said. He described the amendment as aligning authority with the administrator's operational role.
With the amendment on the floor and no further substantive objection recorded, the clerk called the roll and the council approved item 16 as amended by a recorded vote of 13 ayes.
The council did not provide additional detail in the public meeting about how this change will affect specific projects or the administrator's delegated limits; the motion was described on the record as a technical adjustment to the delegation language.
