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What did Council file 23-0265 approve, and what has been paid under it?

“Katherine Dymond v. City of Los Angeles, et al.”. The City's checkbook records $4.5M in 1 payment citing this file (FY2023-24). The Council voted on it once; the latest: Adopted in Open Session 13–0, 1 absent, 1 vacant seat, on Apr 21, 2023.

City Clerk (CVVS, CFMS) · Read Oct 1, 2026Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026

Vote records are from the City Clerk's Council Vote Viewing System, which the Clerk labels unofficial; the Council File is the official record.

Council File 23-0265 on the City Clerk's site · Mayor Concurrence/Council Action (May 4, 2023)

Council votes

Newest first. Only votes on this exact file number are shown; related sub-files (-S1, -S2 …) are separate files with their own votes. A Yes vote approves the item as presented that day; it does not endorse any particular later payment.

Adopted in Open Session 13–0, 1 absent, 1 vacant seat

Apr 21, 2023 · Regular meeting · item 26

ITEM NO. (26) - 23-0265 The City Council may recess to Closed Session, pursuant to Government Code Section 54956.9(d)(1), to confer with its legal counsel relative to the case entitled Katherine Dymond v. City of Los Angeles, et al., Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC681790. (This case involves a landslide above Cabora Drive in Playa del Rey in January 2017.)

Clerk's tally (13 - 0 - 2). CVVS and CFMS agree member by member. CVVS vote 118698

Member by member (15)
MemberCDVote
Vacant seat6Recorded as absent
Bob Blumenfield3Yes
Kevin Deleon14Yes
Marqueece Harris-Dawson8Yes
Eunisses Hernandez1Yes
Heather Hutt10Yes
Paul Krekorian2Yes
John Lee12Yes
Tim McOsker15Absent
Traci Park11Yes
Curren D. Price9Yes
Nithya Raman4Yes
Monica Rodriguez7Yes
Hugo Soto-Martinez13Yes
Katy Yaroslavsky5Yes

Payments that cite this file

Checkbook payments since FY2017-18 that name this council file, either in the payment's authority field or in its description, grouped by purchase order and payee, largest first.

OrderPaid toPaid
GAENV59CF23230265MCited as authoritySteven a Blum Attorney ClientNon-Departmental$4,500,0001 payment

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Sources

How to read the votes. Absent is not a No: a member recorded absent did not vote. The Clerk records an empty seat as absent; it is shown here as a vacant seat, not as anyone's absence. The Clerk's own tally, printed as (Ayes - Noes - Absent), counts vacant seats as absent. The vote values the Clerk records are Yes, No and Absent only.

Roll calls from the City Clerk's Council Vote Viewing System (CVVS), with meeting dates from its search results, and checked member by member against the Council File Management System (CFMS), which also supplies the file title, meeting type and the action recorded. Payments from the LA Controller's Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn). All council files behind City payments.