Los Angeles City Council


The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles.
The council is composed of 15 members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms. The president of the council and the president pro tempore are chosen by the council at the first regular meeting of the term. An assistant president pro tempore is appointed by the President. As of 2015, council members receive an annual salary of $184,610 per year, which is among the highest city council salary in the nation.
Regular council meetings are held in the City Hall on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10 am except on holidays or if decided by special resolution.
A current annual schedule of all Council meetings, broken down by committee, is available as a.pdf download from the

Current members

Officers:
DistrictNameParty
1Gil CedilloDemocratic
2Paul KrekorianDemocratic
3Bob BlumenfieldDemocratic
4David RyuDemocratic
5Paul KoretzDemocratic
6Nury MartinezDemocratic
7Monica RodriguezDemocratic
8Marqueece Harris-DawsonDemocratic
9Curren PriceDemocratic
10Herb WessonDemocratic
11Mike BoninDemocratic
12John LeeIndependent
13Mitch O'FarrellDemocratic
14José HuizarDemocratic
15Joe BuscainoDemocratic

Criminal Charges

District 14 Jose Huizar has been arrested and charged in federal court with various corruption allegations. A former city councilman awaits sentencing.

Past councils

1850–89 (Common Council)

Los Angeles was governed by a seven-member Common Council under general state law from 1850 to 1889, when a city charter was put into effect.

1889–1909 (nine wards)

Under the first charter of the city, granted by the Legislature in 1889, the city was divided into nine wards, with a councilman elected from each one by plurality vote. The first election under that system was held on February 21, 1889, and the last on December 4, 1906.
Two-year terms for the City Council began and ended in December, except for the first term, which started in February 1889 and ended in December 1890. The term of office was lengthened to three years effective with the municipal election of December 4, 1906, which was the last year this ward system was in use.

1909–25 (at large)

Between 1909 and 1925, the council was composed of nine members elected at large in a first-past-the-post voting system. Council membership in those years was as follows:

1909–11

City population in 1910: 319,200
Election: December 7, 1909 / Term: December 10, 1909, to December 13, 1911
Election: December 5, 1911 / Term: December 13, 1911, to July 1, 1913
Election: June 3, 1913 / Term: July 1913 to July 1915
Election: June 1, 1915 / Term: July 1915 to July 1917
Election: June 5, 1917 / Term: July 1917 to July 1919
City population in 1920: 576,700
Election: June 3, 1919 / Term: July 7, 1919, to July 5, 1921
Election: June 7, 1921 / Term: July 1921 to July 1923
Election: June 5, 1923 / Term: July 1923 to July 1925
Regular terms begin on July 1 of odd-numbered years until 2017 and on the second Monday in December of even-numbered years starting with 2020.