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

CITY COUNCIL

REHAB LOAN: Approved a $300,000 city Community Redevelopment Agency loan to the Hollywood Wilshire YMCA. The money will be used to help rehabilitate a YMCA building at 1553 North Hudson Ave. in Hollywood into a long-term housing facility for homeless young adults and their children.

GRAFFITI REWARDS: Approved rewards of $1,000 each to members of the public, including five from Westside districts, who reported acts of graffiti vandalism to authorities.

AIDS FUND-RAISER: Councilman Marvin Braude introduced a motion requesting that city traffic officers be assigned to control traffic at Bundy Drive and Airport Avenue during a fund-raiser for AIDS patients on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will take place at the Santa Monica Air Center and is sponsored by Hollywood Helps, a nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance to AIDS patients.

TACO BELL: Approved a request by a property owner to construct a 1,989-square-foot Taco Bell Restaurant at 3560 La Cienega Blvd. north of Rodeo Road in the Baldwin Hills area. The majority of the residents living near the proposed site approved of the construction, according to city officials.

RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSIONERS

ZOO TRAM: Approved a tram system for the Los Angeles Zoo. The action authorizes the use of about $158,000 in zoo funds to start the tram operating. It will cost an estimated $525,000 a year to run the system, which will be operated by a private company. The operating expenses will be provided by customers. Adults will be charged $3 and senior citizens and children $1.

ZOO ADMISSION FEES: Approved raising admission for adults from $6 to $7 and for youth from $2.75 to $3. Admission for senior citizens remains $5.

HOW THEY VOTED

How Westside representatives voted on selected issues.

LOUD PARTY: Approved a $175 service fee to be charged to the host any time police must respond a second time to quiet a loud party. An additional fee of $8 will be charged each minute a helicopter must be used in quieting the party. Passed: 10-0. Voting yes: Marvin Braude, Ruth Galanter, Nate Holden and Mark Ridley-Thomas. John Ferraro, Michael Woo and Zev Yaroslavsky were absent.

SETTLEMENT: Approved spending $25,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an elderly woman, her husband and two granddaughters who claimed that police caused them injuries and violated their civil rights in a March, 1988, incident in which officers searched the couple’s home. A jury ruled that police were negligent for handcuffing Edna Hunter, 68, and leaving her on the ground during their search. Passed: 10-0. Voting yes: Braude, Galanter, Holden and Ridley-Thomas. Ferraro, Woo and Yaroslavsky were absent.

RIOT INSURANCE: Approved a recommendation asking the city to support the re-enactment of the federal riot reinsurance program, which provided affordable insurance to property owners in urban areas. The program was repealed in early 1980. Passed: 10-0. Voting yes: Braude, Galanter, Holden and Ridley-Thomas. Ferraro, Woo and Yaroslavsky were absent.

ON THE AGENDA

WEED AND SEED: On Friday, the council will discuss the “Weed and Seed,” federal program. The program is part of the city’s recovery and revitalization project started after the recent riots. Under the program, a small target area is selected and an effort is made to “weed” it of crime and “seed” it by providing federal funds to social service projects in the area.