A summary of selected City Hall actions...
A summary of selected City Hall actions last week that affect the Westside.
CITY COUNCIL
* AID FOR THE ELDERLY--Authorized the general manager of the Department of Aging to select contractors who will provide services to the elderly for the period from July 1, 1994, to July 1, 1998. Contracts totaling $9.3 million will be awarded to provide about 2,700 daily lunch deliveries, 5,200 daily lunches at designated sites, in-home cleaning and minor repair work, and legal and transportation services.
* SIGNALING SERVICE--Approved a contract increase of $64,000 to Emergency Response Systems Inc. for the Emergency Alert Response System, a program that provides electronic signaling devices to 700 low-income individuals, 60 years and older, who are frail and live alone. This increase, which brings total funding to $202,000, gives the company the funds to expand the signaling service to 100 extra clients through June 30, when the contract expires.
HOW THEY VOTED
* GRAPE BOYCOTT--Approved a weeklong boycott of California table grapes by City Council members to express support for farm workers exposed to pesticides. The gesture was made to coincide with last Thursday’s ceremony for the installation of the first street sign renaming Brooklyn Avenue Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. At the urging of a visitor to the council meeting, Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg, author of the resolution, amended the boycott to exempt grapes certified as organically grown. Passed 12-1.
Voting yes: Marvin Braude, Ruth Galanter, Goldberg, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Zev Yaroslavsky.
Absent: Nate Holden.
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