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
GANG FUNDS: Councilwoman Ruth Galanter introduced a proposal to spend $1,000 of her district’s public service funds for a program aimed at high-risk youths. The program is operated by Community Youth Gang Services. The money will be used to partially fund general operating expenses of the project.
BIKE HELMETS: Galanter introduced a proposal that would require vendors to rent helmets to their customers along with bicycles and roller skates.
HOW THEY VOTED
How Westside representatives voted on selected issues.
REWARD: Approved a proposal offering $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the killings of three men in the last four months in the Harbor City area. A fourth man who was shot in the separate drive-by shootings survived. PASSED: 10-0.
VOTING YES: Marvin Braude, John Ferraro, Galanter, Nate Holden, Mark Ridley-Thomas and Zev Yaroslavsky.
ABSENT: Michael Woo.
SETTLEMENT: Approved spending $25,000 to settle a lawsuit by Brad Niems, 24, who was thrown from his bicycle and injured when the front wheel hit a groove in the pavement on National Boulevard near Beverly Drive in November, 1988. The street was being resurfaced. PASSED: 14-0.
VOTING YES: Braude, Ferraro, Galanter, Holden, Ridley-Thomas and Yaroslavsky.
ABSENT: Woo.
SISTER CITY: Approved the adoption of Split, Croatia, as a sister city. PASSED: 11-0.
VOTING YES: Braude, Ferraro, Galanter, Ridley-Thomas and Yaroslavsky.
ABSENT: Holden and Woo.
ON THE AGENDA
GANGS: On Friday, the council is scheduled to discuss the city assisting the county with the development of a countywide youth gang-prevention plan.
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