A summary of significant Los Angeles City...

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

CITY COUNCIL

* WILSHIRE TRAFFIC: Approved transferring $1.7 million in parking revenues to a project designed to improve the flow of traffic on the Miracle Mile section of Wilshire Boulevard, between Fairfax and Sycamore avenues (one block east of La Brea Avenue). The project will include expanding left-turn capacities, re-landscaping medians and lane re-striping. The plan does not include a synchronized lighting system for the 16-block stretch.

* DRUG TASK FORCE: Approved using $70,000 from the Police Department’s general fund to pay for the overtime work of eight narcotics officers working for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force, which is under the control of the federal Drug Enforcement Agency. Operating throughout Southern California, the task force focuses on disrupting major distribution rings of cocaine, heroin, PCP and marijuana. The DEA will reimburse the city.

HOW THEY VOTED

* GUN CONTROL: Approved a motion expressing the council’s support for a bill pending in the state Legislature that would allow California cities to adopt their own gun-control laws, provided they are more stringent than current state and federal laws. Among those arguing against the motion was Councilman Nate Holden, who said that if the bill becomes law, Los Angeles County could theoretically have 86 different gun-control laws. Passed 10-4.

Voting yes: John Ferraro, Marvin Braude, Ruth Galanter, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Jackie Goldberg.

Voting no: Holden.

Absent: Zev Yaroslavsky.