Wednesday was the first public meeting for a new countywide homelessness prevention agency that spotlight tools to create affordable housing in LA.Crediting an influx of state and federal dollars along with higher-than-expected revenue and departmental cost savings, the countyapproved an amended $46.7 billion budget for the 2023-34 fiscal year Tuesday, adding hundreds of new positions.
The rest of the additional funding is the result of "operational savings" in various departments, including staff vacancies, cost savings in areas such as ongoing capital improvement projects and revenue collections that "exceeded what was anticipated," primarily property tax revenue. As they have in many previous public hearings during the budget cycle, board members got an earful from many activists who continued to push for the immediate closure of the Men's Central Jail downtown, contending that conditions remain poor and endanger the lives of those housed there.
Hahn also pointed to $22 million in state funding being provided for the scheduled Dec. 1 implementation of the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment, or CARE, Court, a statewide effort to get severely mentally ill into treatment. She also noted the addition of 132 mental health beds included in the new spending plan.
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