The Los Angeles City Council Friday finalized a revised budget for fiscal year 2025-26, which now heads to Mayor Karen Bass’ desk for her consideration.
More than a week after the council preliminary approved the revised $14 billion spending plan, members took a second and final vote on the matter Friday. Elected officials voted 11-2 to advance a budget resolution, which reflects the changes council members made to Bass’ initial proposal.
Council members John Lee and Traci Park opposed the revised spending plan, while Nithya Raman and Monica Rodriguez were absent during the vote.
The matter was previously scheduled earlier this week, but a vote was delayed as staff finished up paperwork and submitted it to the appropriate council file.
With the city facing a $1 billion budget deficit, council members have said the revised budget saves 1,000 jobs that were proposed for layoffs, while maintaining core city services.
Bass initially called for 1,647 layoffs and the elimination of more than 1,000 vacant positions as part of a plan to address the deficit. To further reduce layoffs, city officials are considering the transfer of employees to proprietary departments such as the Department of Water and Power, airports and port — which are not funded by the general fund but rather through revenue generated by their operations.
While unionized city employees recognized the effort to reduce layoffs, some say the loss of positions would likely cause severe cuts to essential services and increase liabilities in the next fiscal year.
Charles Leon, a regional coordinator for Service Employees International Union Local 721, said Tuesday that the union is committed to working with the city on workforce development, in particular to address vacancy rates. He called for open discussions to improve service delivery and promote career opportunities for historically underserved communities.
“This discussion needs to start now — not at some better time in the unforeseeable future,” Leon said.
SEIU Local 721, which represents some city workers, is part of the Coalition of Los Angeles City Unions. The coalition consists of several labor unions such as American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees 3090, Teamsters, Laborers’ International Union of North America Local 777, LA/OC Building Trades and others, who represent more than 10,000 city employees.
Key aspects of the revised spending plan include money for 240 new police officers over the coming year, down from 480 proposed by the mayor; and 58 new employees for the Los Angeles Fire Department, also a reduction from 227 proposed by Bass.
Overall, the police and fire departments are expected to receive a year-over-year increase in their operational budgets. Rodriguez, Park and Lee previously criticized the revised budget, citing concerns with the resources allocated toward public safety.
The council also reduced spending in Bass’ signature homelessness program, Inside Safe. But Rodriguez had said more money should have been shifted out due to the program’s lack of oversight and high cost.
Meanwhile, Councilman Tim McOsker said a lack of cost-cutting measures to the city’s public safety departments would have resulted in more layoffs and threats to core services such as street repairs, sanitation, street lighting and much more.
He reiterated that the council could have an opportunity to increase police hiring if the economic outlook improves.
The deficit is a result of overspending, costly liability payouts, lower tax revenues, labor contracts and fire recovery, among other challenges. The city is expected to cover $250 million due to labor agreements in 2025-26.
City Council members also agreed to use $29 million in the city’s budget stabilization fund to help address the deficit. Additionally, they expect to collect an additional $20 million in business tax revenue, and the city is expected to increase the cost of parking tickets, which could raise $14 million.
The revised budget includes an additional $5 million for the Animal Services Department, which Bass called for, and funding to continue the Climate Emergency Mobilization Office; among other things.
The city must adopt a new budget before the start of next fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Couldn’t have found a better person to make the whole fucking town the shitty is’t fucking place in America right.
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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