A summary of significant Los Angeles City...

A summary of significant Los Angeles City Hall decisions affecting the Westside in the last week.

CITY COUNCIL

APPOINTMENT: Approved the appointment of Mariko Laniado-Tse to the Board of Social Service Commissioners. A resident of West Los Angeles, Laniado-Tse fills a vacancy on the five-member board created by the resignation of Edward Yang.

FARMERS MARKET: Approved the continued temporary closure of Ivar Avenue between Hollywood Boulevard and Selma Avenue every Sunday from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. until June 30, 1992, for the Hollywood Farmers Market. The market, which offers fresh produce, flowers, fish and baked goods to the public, is open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

STREET LAMPS: Approved a proposal to replace substandard street lamps in the Hancock Park area with new, ornamental lamps. The $1.4-million project will be financed by the city’s street-lighting maintenance fund and property assessments. The lights will be replaced in stages, with the first installations to start in March.

HOW THEY VOTED

How Westside representatives voted on selected issues. OLD AND YOUNG: Approved a 10-year lease agreement between the Organization for the Needs of the Elderly and the Mark Taper Foundation to operate social and recreational programs for the elderly and youth at the White Oak Recreation Center in Van Nuys. Under the agreement, the Mark Taper Foundation made a $1-million grant to the organization to be used to renovate the White Oak facility. Passed: 14-0. Voting yes: Marvin Braude, John Ferraro, Ruth Galanter, Nate Holden, Joel Wachs and Zev Yaroslavsky. Michael Woo was absent.

TREES: Approved a proposal changing the current tree planting program to allow the city Street Tree Division to plant drought-tolerant trees. Passed: 14-0. Voting yes: Braude, Ferraro, Galanter, Holden, Wachs and Yaroslavsky. Woo was absent.

CUL-DE-SAC: Approved spending $74,000 to continue the Operation Cul-de-Sac Program through June 30, 1992. The program concentrates police in a selected, high-crime neighborhood and includes closing certain streets to traffic. Passed: 11-4. Voting yes: Braude, Galanter, Wachs and Yaroslavsky. Ferraro, Holden and Woo were absent.

SETTLEMENT: Approved spending $85,865 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the mother of a 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by an off-duty Los Angeles police officer in 1984 after a confrontation off the Hollywood Freeway near Vineland Avenue. A Superior Court jury ruled in 1989 that Officer Walter Rose negligently shot Carlos U. Rodriguez. Passed: 14-0. Voting yes: Braude, Ferraro, Galanter, Holden, Wachs and Yaroslavsky. Woo was absent.