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

CITY COUNCIL

* CITY TERRACE TUTORING: Approved spending $450 on supplies for a City Terrace Coordinating Council program in which volunteer high school and college students tutor elementary school children in math and English. The Creative Thinking Program, which operates from June to September, also offers free bus trips to the beach and other city attractions for students and their families on Fridays during the summer. Parents interested in this program can call Gloria Chavez at (213) 269-2602.

* KOREATOWN LIBRARY: Authorized leasing 5,000 square feet of space in a building at 3700 Wilshire Blvd. for the Pio Pico Koreatown Branch Library. The rent will be $7,923 per month. The current library, located at 2631 W. Olympic Blvd., is only 2,800 square feet, the rent is $630 a month more than the new site, and the facility does not meet disabled-access requirements. The move is expected to be completed in two months.

* BUILDING VIOLATIONS: Placed several properties in the city’s Rent Escrow Account Program (REAP), which is designed to encourage landlords to quickly repair and better maintain their buildings. Once a building is placed into REAP, the tenants’ rent payments are placed in a city account. The city keeps $50 of every rent payment, and the remaining money is turned over to the landlord once repairs are made. The following is a list of properties and why they were entered into REAP: 820 S. Mansfield Ave., electrical violation; 1050-56 S. Park View St., electrical violations; 1279-81 1/2 Elysian Park Ave., waterproofing violations, and 2355-50 1/2 Lincoln Park Ave, heating violations.

HOW THEY VOTED

How South-Central and Eastside City Council representatives voted on selected issues.

* WILSHIRE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT: Gave preliminary approval to establishing the Wilshire Center Business Improvement District. The district would levy an assessment on property owners to maintain improvements being financed by the Wilshire Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has procured over $5 million in federal, state, local and private funds. The plan includes planting 2,550 trees, installing gateway monument signs, landscaping median islands, decorating sidewalks and building new bus shelters. The proposed improvement district--which would be bounded by Wilton Place on the West, Alvarado Street on the East, 3rd Street on the north, and San Marino Avenue on the south--would assess only businesses that front Wilshire Boulevard. Other properties are included in the district to enhance the area surrounding the Wilshire Center. Public hearings on the proposal are expected within a month. A chamber spokesman said more than 60% of the property owners who would be assessed have signed forms supporting establishing the district. Support from a majority of the property owners is sufficient to establish the district.