Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued the following statement today, commenting on the Board of Supervisors\u2019 approval of the final $46.7 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24.<\/p>\n
\u201cI support our Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer\u2019s balanced approach to allocating our County\u2019s available funds. We must live within our means and spend responsibly while staying laser-focused on areas of concern, such as addressing homelessness and expanding our mental health infrastructure.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n As we fund homelessness outreach, housing, and supportive services, we\u2019re seeing clearly that treating mental illness is inextricably connected to successfully achieving lasting results.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Funding mental health services, beds, and personnel are all fundamental building blocks to every focal policy area of our Board \u2013 from accomplishing reforms in the County\u2019s jails, to helping people experiencing homelessness remain housed, to supporting foster youth who have experienced trauma that limits their full potential.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I will continue to track and shine a bright light on our Department of Mental Health\u2019s work to open much needed treatment beds in the coming weeks and months. Our County has a legal responsibility to do so, and we need a clear roadmap to show how we will deliver 3,500 beds that are presently court-mandated.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n It is our job as County Supervisors to eliminate policy roadblocks at state and federal levels that impede that work, and to direct sufficient resources to get the job done. I take that responsibility seriously and won\u2019t stop until we make meaningful improvements.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The adoption of this supplemental budget is the final phase in Los Angeles County\u2019s annual budgeting process. It accounts for final revenue estimates based on the County\u2019s collection of property taxes, sales taxes, and cost savings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60211,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60210\/revisions\/60211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}