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Budget committee identifies $60M in potential cuts, seeks swaps to avoid layoffs
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council Budget and Finance Committee reviewed a CAO memo listing roughly $60 million of potential reductions and offsets that could be used to restore city positions and services and instructed staff to model tradeoffs between public safety, homelessness spending and other core functions.
The Los Angeles City Council Budget and Finance Committee spent a large portion of its May 8 session reviewing a City Administrative Office (CAO) catalog of potential reductions and offsets totaling roughly $60 million in the current fiscal year and about $100 million on an ongoing basis.
Committee chair and CAO staff presented “Memo 82,” a portfolio-style list of proposed decreases and deferrals across departments — including new program cuts in Fire, scaled-back police sworn hiring, reductions in new zoo transition items, and various across-the-board trims to discretionary accounts — intended to create room in the…
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