Among her promises, she says her proposed budget will maintain Los Angeles Police Department’s staff goals.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers the State of the City address to city council members and invited guests at Los Angeles City Hall on Monday, April 15, 2024. One year ago, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass – then just four months into her term as the city’s top executive – acknowledged that the City of Angels wasn’t where it needed to be but that she was proud of the changes taking place in the nascent days of her administration.
“For too long, Angelenos have been failed by quick fixes and unhoused people just being shuffled around. Angelenos deserve real solutions, and that means a sea change in the way L.A. approaches homelessness. This means committing to the goal of preventing and ending homelessness — not hiding, not managing, but ending homelessness,” she said to applause.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers the State of the City address to city council members and invited guests at Los Angeles City Hall on Monday, April 15, 2024. She referred to Inside Safe as “our proactive rejection of a status quo that left unhoused Angelenos to wait – and die – outside, in encampments until permanent housing was built.”
“Supporting our sworn personnel is deeply important to me. And the status quo simply cannot protect Angelenos. So we are acting to change it,” she said, noting negotiations over the past year to give raises and other benefits to recruit and retain police officers. In January, the City Council directed all city departments to only fill essential positions moving forward. This month, members of the council’s personnel committee began discussing a proposal to eliminate nearly 2,000 vacant positions that are still on the books.She also spoke of the need to pay city workers fair wages.
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