City staff report fewer eliminated filled positions; police share remains majority of affected roles
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CAO and personnel officials told the committee that eliminated filled positions have fallen from 595 to 184 since July 2025, with 152 of those positions in the police department; personnel said targeted referrals and conditional job offers are moving many employees into other city roles.
The committee heard an update on citywide eliminated filled positions on Feb. 12, 2026, with Kimberly Squire of the City Administrative Officer’s office reporting a drop from 595 eliminated filled positions on July 1, 2025, to 184 as of the CAO’s verbal update.
Squire said 152 of the 184 eliminated filled positions are in the Los Angeles Police Department and described a net reduction of 39 positions since the January 15 report. “It’s expected that these numbers will continue to decrease,” she said, noting transfers and regular attrition as primary drivers.
Personnel Department representative Steve Rivera told the committee the department has referred 17,757 applications and received nearly 1,800 unique applications; 118 conditional job offers (CJOs) have been completed and none have been declined. Rivera said referral turnaround time has been about one day and that roughly 400 positions are available for transfers across clerical and professional classifications.
An LAPD representative reported the department currently has 138 employees in substitute authorities and has moved 30 of a targeted 92 into non-substitute authorities, with another 62 expected by mid-March. The speaker said five LAPD-specific classifications remain unresolved and may need in-lieu authorities or small budget restoration requests.
Committee members pressed personnel on correcting employee job-history records and the so-called “time served” entries. Letty Ortiz, assistant general manager for personnel, said the department is sending surveys to every department to identify records that need updating and that some corrections are limited by the Workday system’s tracking capabilities.
Members also asked about the first furlough day (Feb. 9), which was completed citywide; personnel said they had not received reports of implementation problems but would monitor payroll for any issues. The committee held the item for follow-up and asked staff to provide bullet-point numbers if full reports are not available in time for future meetings.
The committee did not take formal action on this item at the meeting; it was held in committee for continued monitoring and reporting.