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Committee approves CLA opioid remediation plan and asks for mayor—s program metrics
Summary
The Housing and Homelessness Committee approved a follow-up report from the City—s Chief Legislative Analyst on using opioid settlement funds for harm-reduction work, directing departments to seek reimbursements and asking for a CLA report on mayoral expenditures to inform any RFP.
The Los Angeles City Housing and Homelessness Committee on July 30 approved a Chief Legislative Analyst (CLA) report laying out options for an opioid remediation program and directed city departments to pursue reimbursements from opioid settlement funds.
The committee voted to note-and-file the CLA analysis, request the mayor—s office, the Housing Department and the Department of Disability, in coordination with the City Administrative Officer (CAO), to compile invoices for reimbursement, and to have the CLA report back in 90 days on progress toward a city-county partnership to create a Westlake/MacArthur Park harm-reduction center.
The CLA—s presentation summarized allowable uses of opioid settlement money and proposed two program delivery options. Option A would have the Housing Department issue an RFP covering seven city regions with $500,000 contracts in each…
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