COUNTY ENDORSES BUDGET; 1998-99 PLAN CALLS FOR $13.6 BILLION, WOULD ADD JOBS.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
The board deferred making decisions on some $36 million in proposed increases until after the state Legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: While most of that money is expected to be replaced by the state, supervisors are wary that a new funding source would not be as secure in future years. ``If they backfill back·fill n. Material used to refill an excavated area. tr.v. back·filled, back·fill·ing, back·fills To refill (an excavated area) with such material. it at 100 percent, it may not be that important this year,'' said Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive David Janssen. ``But how good is that guarantee in the future?'' The supervisors approved spending $5.2 million to pay for the completion of construction documents for the proposed Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Courthouse, a major victory for Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San who pushed for the planning of the courthouse to be sped up. The supervisors delayed making a decision on lifting the county's hiring freeze Noun 1. hiring freeze - a freeze on hiring freeze - fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring" , which has been in place since the county's 1995 brush with insolvency. Still, an influx of $838 million in new state and federal funding will allow the county to hire on 2,700 more workers. The Department of Public Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales has already started hiring on the 805 employees it needs to get the county's welfare-to-work program up and running. The Department of Mental Health will add 235 people to institute programs funded by the state and federal government, and to restore positions lost during the county's fiscal crisis. The Probation Department, District Attorney's Office, Sheriff's Department and the Department of Children and Family Services are also adding staff. Janssen said the hires are needed to implement new programs in the departments that are being paid for by state and federal funding as opposed to local property tax dollars. The supervisors introduced 17 last-minute motions not listed on the day's agenda, asking for more funding for various departments. All except a few items were deferred until a decision on the vehicle tax is made. While the confidence of county officials has been heightened by increases in local tax revenues, state and federal funding, and a good economy, state auditors in May warned that the county faces a $308 million budget deficit in three years. They warned that the Department of Health Services Department of Health Services may refer to:
Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract officials say they will cut back their spending by $83 million in the next fiscal year through an ambitious process known as ``re-engineering.'' But Supervisors Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. and Don Knabe questioned whether the department really could save the money, noting that Health Services officials have so far only identified $31 million in savings. Mark Finucane, director of the Department of Health Services, told the supervisors he would find the additional $52 million in savings over the course of the next year and that they should not worry about the gap because of the department's re-engineering track record. But Molina said it's the department's past performance on re-engineering that has her concerned, claiming many of the most innovative programs end up in the ``bowels of this bureaucracy.'' ``Re-engineering doesn't have a track record,'' Molina said. ``The consultants you've hired are costing us $15.3 million. We have yet to achieve even half of that in savings.'' COUNTY BUDGETS 1994-95 - $12.3 billion 1995-96 - $12.031 billion 1996-97 - $12.149 billion 1997-98 - $12.6 billion 1998-99 - $13.6 billion CAPTION(S): Box Box: COUNTY BUDGETS (See Text) |
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