The Los Angeles City Council today approved components of a plan aimed at reducing illegal dumping throughout the city, including by shortening the time it takes to deploy cleanup teams when a report is made about excess trash and debris.
An appeals court sided last week with Controller Ron Galperin’s efforts to audit the financial records of a pair of worker safety and training trusts that receive about $4 million a year from the Department of Water and Power. Brian D’Arcy, the chief of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, has fought against subpoenas issued by Galperin’s office to gain access to the trusts financial records, saying the controller does not have the right to directly examine those documents. A superior court judge earlier denied D’Arcy’s request to quash the subpoenas, and a court of appeals on Friday October