A summary of selected City Hall actions this week affecting central Los Angeles.

CITY COUNCIL

* REWARD OFFERED: Approved a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the May 26, 1993, murder of Augusto Steve Marsella, who was shot while he sat in his car in a parking lot at 5060 W. Rodeo Road. Marsella, who had just finished a work shift at Clark Drug Store, ran into the store after being shot, collapsed and died. Authorities say that Marsella was shot during an attempted carjacking and that the crime was witnessed by patrons of the shopping center. The reward was intended to be offered last year, but the motion was lost in a bureaucratic foul-up. Anyone with information about the killing should contact Detective Lou Leiker at (213) 237-1310.

* RENT PROGRAM: Instructed the city attorney to prepare an amendment to the Rent Escrow Account Program that will return rents deposited into the program to the tenants in cases in which landlords refuse to make necessary repairs. The rent escrow program is designed to encourage landlords to quickly repair and better maintain their buildings. Once a building is placed into the program, tenants pay their rent into a city account; the city keeps $50 of every rent payment and the remaining money is turned over to the landlords once repairs are made.

* JUDGE HONORED: Approved a resolution honoring U.S. District Judge Dickran M. Tevrizian, who was recently selected as the outstanding trial judge of 1994-95 by the Los Angeles County Bar Assn. Tevrizian, a graduate of Los Angeles High School, previously was named trial judge of the year in 1987 by the California Trial Lawyers Assn.

HOW THEY VOTED

How South-Central and Eastside City Council representatives voted on selected issues. * SCAVENGER CRACKDOWN: Approved a motion to expand the city’s anti-scavenging program to include the West Adams area in an effort to reduce the number of people who come through neighborhoods on trash pickup days and take recyclable products. The problem has been especially intense in West Adams because there is a recycling center on West Adams Boulevard that pays for such items as newspapers and aluminum cans. The motion calls for $14,000 to be added to the Police Department’s overtime fund to pay for officers participating in the crackdown. Neighborhoods with high scavenger activity will be targeted by police, and a citation will be issued for a first offense. A second offense will result in a misdemeanor charge, though no sentencing guidelines have been set. The program already is in effect in Venice and parts of the San Fernando Valley. Passed 12-0. Voting yes: Richard Alatorre, Jackie Goldberg, Mike Hernandez, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Rita Walters. Absent: Nate Holden, Rudy Svorinich Jr.