A key committee of the Council of the City of Los Angeles voted on Friday to reduce the number of employees aimed at the dismissal of Mayor Karen Bass in more than half, which takes the total to an estimate of 650.
The Budget Committee tok is carried out to save more than 1,000 jobs by searching for a variety of cost reduction measures, such as hiring less police officers and reducing funds for the SAFE Bass program, which moves homes to speak.
Councilor Katy Yaroslavsky, who presides over the committee, said that those and many other movements would help the city protect the central services, including tree cutting equipment, rejuvenation of the street, street repair and sanitation that address the illegal discharge.
“We are looking for ways to save positions, not only for employment counts, but to ensure that departments can still do the work that our voters must do for their quality of life,” said Yaroslavsky, who represents part of the west side.
The recommendations of the Committee for the Budget of Propose 2025-26 are now addressed to the Complete Council, which is scheduled to take a topic on Thursday.
Councilor Eunisses Hernández, who is in the Committee, expressed certain optimism after the vote.
“We were in very rough waters and a very different landscape, when we start this process,” said Hernández, who represses part of the east side. “And now there seems to be some light between the clouds.”
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The Budget Committee also agreed to eliminate 42 emergency incident technicians in the Fire Department, a measure opposed by Interim Chief of Firefighters Ronnie Villanueva, while canceling the Bass plan for a new unity of homeless people within that agency.
In addition, the five -member panel recommended an increase in parking fees, which is expected to generate $ 14 million in the next fiscal year.
Yaroslavsky said the changes supported by the Budget Committee on Friday would save some 150 civil workers in the police department.
Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso, who advises the Council, said he believes that city officials will continue to find ways to reduce the amount of layoffs, transferring workers to vacant positions from the city or agencies that are not affected by the budgetary crisis, such as the world airports of Los Angeles and the Port or Los Angeles.
“I think we will really reduce that number to less than 500,” he told the committee.
Bass, faced with a deficit of almost $ 1 billion, launched a budget proposed last month that required the dismissal of approximately 1,600 employees, a fourth of them civil workers in the LAPD. Some of the greatest reductions were planned in the agencies that handle the sanitation, the repair of the streets and the maintenance of the city’s facilities.
Friday’s deliberations prepared the stage so that many positions remain intact, partly in the city planning department, which had faced 115 layoffs. Kevin Keller, executive officer of that agency, said the committee found the financing to restore more than 100 of those positions.
“I know that there are many city workers who breathe a great sigh of relief tonight,” said Roy Samaan, president of the engineers and architects Assn., Whose employees of the Union Planning Department.
The budgetary crisis of Los Angeles has been attributed to a number or factors, including legal payments in rapid increase, the lowest fiscal income than expected and a package of increases for the work force of the city that is expected to add $ 250 million to the promoted to the next to what comes to the next 1.
Bass and the Council have hoped to persuade the city’s labor unions to provide financial concessions that would help avoid more cuts. Until now, there are no offers that have hit.
On Friday, before the committee began its deliberations, Bass said it is optimistic about avoiding layoffs completely. At the same time, he spoke against a budget strategy that faces the hiring of police officers against the preservation of other works, qualifying it as “Sophie’s election.”
If the LAPD slows the hiring, it will have Ferwer officers in the period prior to the World Cup organization next year, he said.
“I’m not going to accept that as my choice,” he said.
Duration The last minutes of the five -hour meeting on Friday, the members of the Council made some last -minute restorations, identifying additional funds for youth programs, cuts of trees and mechanics of the fire department. Hernández pressed for the Committee to restore $ 1 million for representation, which provides legal defense of immigrants who face deportation or other application actions, and $ 500,000 for graffiti paint equipment.
Hernández said the city needs to support immigrants in the midst of a hard federal repression. And described the elimination of graffiti as crucial for public security in its district.
“Receiving graffiti quickly prevents many people from being shot, prevents them from killing them,” he said.
