Overview
- Mayor Karen Bass released a $14.9 billion budget Monday that avoids layoffs and keeps service levels steady, helped by stronger business, property and sales tax receipts.
- The plan sets aside $104 million for Inside Safe, the city’s hotel-based homelessness initiative, with the mayor’s team expecting more than half of that to be reimbursed by Los Angeles County.
- Public safety staffing centers on hiring 510 LAPD officers to offset retirements and resignations, while Fire Department staffing holds flat until voters decide on a sales tax measure in November.
- The proposal boosts basic infrastructure work with more curb ramps for wheelchair access, increased street trash removal, and about $36 million for sidewalk repairs required by an accessibility settlement.
- The budget now goes to the City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee, chaired by Katy Yaroslavsky, for weeks of hearings and potential changes before the July 1 fiscal year start, following last year’s cuts to the mayor’s LAPD hiring goal.