A summary of selected City Hall actions this past week affecting Central Los Angeles. : CITY COUNCIL

* REWARDS: Approved a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the slaying of Joong Kun Lee, 55, who was killed in an apparent robbery Oct. 23 at his store at 7213 S. Broadway. Lee was killed just seven months after he reopened Cat’s Liquor, which was ransacked but not burned during last year’s riots. The council also approved a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the slaying of Myung Lee, who ran a doughnut shop at Figueroa Street and Florence Avenue. Lee recently died after gunshot wounds she received in a July robbery left her in a coma.

* MARIACHI PLAZA: Approved a redesign of 1st Street and Boyle Avenue in Boyle Heights as a pedestrian mall named Mariachi Plaza in honor of the musicians that have gathered there for more than 50 years. The Department of Water and Power was appointed as project coordinator.

* FESTIVAL DE LOS MARIACHIS: Councilman Richard Alatorre is requesting that $2,529 in fees and overtime salaries for traffic officers be waived for the Festival de los Mariachis de Los Angeles in Boyle Heights from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 21. The festival will be at 1st Street and Boyle Avenue.

* AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: Alatorre is requesting that city permit fees be waived for El Gran Apagon, the Spanish-language version of the Great American Smokeout from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 14 at Olvera Street. The event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, is being held to encourage Spanish-speaking smokers to kick the habit, and to educate youths to refrain from smoking. The city would absorb $644 in fees.

HOW THEY VOTED

How South-Central and Eastside City Council representatives voted on selected issues. * APPOINTMENT: Named former school board member Larry Gonzalez to the Fire Commission. Gonzalez took the position that Mayor Richard Riordan had sought for Latino activist Xavier Hermosillo, who was rejected by the City Council in August. Gonzalez, of Highland Park, served on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education from 1983 to 1987. Passed: 12-0. Voting yes: Alatorre, Jackie Goldberg, Nate Holden, Rudy Svorinich Jr., Mark Ridley-Thomas and Rita Walters. Absent: Mike Hernandez.

* NATURAL DISASTERS: Voted to support federal legislation that would establish a primary insurance fund and provide financial assistance to state and local governments to speed recovery from natural disasters. Passed: 12-0. Voting yes: Alatorre, Goldberg, Holden, Svorinich, Ridley-Thomas and Walters. Absent: Hernandez.