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

CITY COUNCIL

* ANTI-CRIME PROGRAM--Instructed the Police Department to report within two weeks on the effectiveness of a trial program that has restricted driving on three intersections along Yucca Street in Hollywood in an effort to reduce drive-by drug sales. Along Yucca Street, at Las Palmas, Cherokee and Whitley avenues, red traffic cones have been posted to limit left and right turns by drivers in hopes of making drug buying less convenient. A public hearing will also be held on the program.

* POLICE STATION OPEN HOUSE: Approved the closure of First Street between Chicago and St. Louis streets on April 23 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an open house at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollenbeck Division.

HOW THEY VOTED

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

HANCOCK PARK LIGHTING: Gave preliminary approval to a plan to install ornamental street lights in the area of Hancock Park bounded by Wilshire Boulevard, Rossmore Avenue, Third Street and Highland Avenue. The cost of the street lighting system is expected to be $1.4 million, with $763,000 coming from the city’s street light replacement fund. The remaining $665,000 will be assessed to property owners in the area, who agreed to pay for the new lights. Passed 13-0. Voting yes: Richard Alatorre, Jackie Goldberg, Mike Hernandez, Nate Holden, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Rudy Svorinich Jr. and Rita Walters.

ARTS, HEALTH AND HUMANITIES COMMITTEE

* LIBRARY DONATIONS: Gave preliminary approval to a Library Department plan that will honor individuals or corporations that donate $1 million to branch libraries and $2 million to regional branch libraries by adding their names to the title of those libraries. Susan Goldberg Kent, the city’s chief librarian, said the program is designed to raise funds to help prevent city libraries from “being left behind on the information superhighway.” Under the plan, if a million-dollar donation is received, 25% would go to improvements to the library specified by the donor, the remaining 75% would go to the Library Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the Library Department. The foundation would dispense the funds to libraries throughout the city. This part of the plan was applauded by two committee members, Councilwoman Rita Walters and Councilman Mike Hernandez, who were concerned that only the richer areas of the city would benefit from the donation program. Assuming the proposal wins final approval, it will go to the full City Council for a vote. There are 64 libraries in the city: 56 branch libraries, seven larger regional branch libraries and the Central Library.