Dear Friend:
Budget season is upon us. Next week, the Mayor will unveil her proposed budget and hand it off to the Budget and Finance and Innovation (BFI) Committee for review, analysis and alteration. The Mayor’s budget, totaling more than $13 billion, will reflect critically important priorities like how we address homelessness, public safety, and infrastructure. |
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As Chair of the BFI Committee, I will lead days of public hearings where we bring in the General Manager and budget chief of nearly every City department to discuss their budget line-by-line. I will also be formally requiring departments to justify their budget asks with a clear articulation about their goals and the metrics by which these goals can be judged.
As you know, the City is facing real financial challenges this year. There are many reasons for this, including drops in revenue and pending raises for large swaths of City workers (including a major salary increase for LAPD that was approved last year), and the reality that large pots of COVID funding are no longer available. Nonetheless, we will produce a balanced budget that enables the City to function, reflects our values, takes bold steps to address our City’s biggest challenges and is the product of genuine stakeholder engagement and compromise.
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Toward that end, I would love your input. Please fill out my annual budget survey by clicking here. Also, I welcome your input when it comes to asking questions of the Departments and other expert witnesses who will be giving testimony during the hearing process. I have created a portal for you to submit questions. I will select some questions from this portal to formally ask during the hearing, consolidate others, and will use others to help me formulate other questions to ask and topics to cover. Together and with your input, we will create a solid blueprint for the next fiscal year. |
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield 200 N Spring Street, Room 465, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Unsubscribe |
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