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Planning Department says budget restorations avert layoffs but will shift programs, fee studies planned
Summary
Director of Planning Vince Bertone told the Planning and Land Use Committee that council restorations largely avoided layoffs after proposed cuts, but the department will reprioritize work, pause some programs and pursue fee studies and organizational moves including zoning review transfer and city forest positions.
Vince Bertone, director of the Los Angeles Department of City Planning, told the Planning and Land Use Committee that recent council actions restored most positions after proposed cuts and the department is not facing immediate layoffs.
Bertone said the council restored nearly all of the roughly 115 filled positions that had been cut in an early budget proposal and as a result “we're not looking at, those this budget resulting directly in layoffs in the Planning Department,” while acknowledging program-level reductions and reprioritization.
The restructured work plan will pause or defund some programs that had been active, Bertone said, naming the environmental justice element update,…
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