1990: A RETROSPECTIVE : AROUND CITY HALL

Mayor Tom Bradley, under siege for his tangled financial dealings, remained the target of local, state and federal probes.

Questions were raised about Bradley mayoral aides and commission appointees using their positions to solicit campaign funds from companies and individuals doing business with the commissions. At year’s end, the state Fair Political Practices Commission and Los Angeles Police Department continued to look into Bradley’s possible misuse of city resources for campaign purposes.

In other City Hall news, Bradley signed into law one of the largest mandatory household garbage recycling programs in the nation; the City Council OKd the $2-billion Porter Ranch housing and commercial development in the northwestern San Fernando Valley; the council shied away from Bradley’s efforts to impose mandatory water rationing in Los Angeles; and Bradley, on a trip to the Soviet Union, offered to send city workers to Leningrad to help fill potholes.