The Region - News from May 29, 1987

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley’s Task Force for Africa, a lingering item of controversy in the city’s 1987-88 budget, was spared the knife as the City Council finalized a $2.47-billion spending plan. The council failed to override Bradley’s veto on a proposal to eliminate the $98,120 task force. Designed to improve trade relations with African nations, the task force has been criticized as a Bradley pet project that would provide little benefit to city taxpayers. After a lobbying effort by the mayor, however, the council in effect agreed to restore the funding.