Budget and Finance Committee meeting summary
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The Committee approved multiple budget and ordinance actions, including motions to accelerate interim homeless housing contract payments and restore mobile hygiene center services; it approved a pilot for underground mechanized waste collection, consolidated taxi and transportation boards, established a Transportation Communications Network Revenue Fund, noted an update on the Convention Center expansion, and considered numerous legal matters in closed session.
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The Committee directed faster quarterly payments for interim homeless housing contracts and asked staff to identify funding to restore contracts for the Mobile Hygiene Centers Program, which should speed payment flows and support hygiene services used by people experiencing homelessness. Members also approved a pilot to test underground mechanized waste collection, and approved consolidation of the Board of Taxicab Commissioners with the Board of Transportation Commissioners plus a new Transportation Communications Network Revenue Fund, which affects how taxi and ride-network regulation and related revenues are organized. The meeting included a noted update on the Los Angeles Convention Center expansion and multiple closed-session reviews of pending legal cases.
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- NOTED AND FILED City Administrative Officer report on Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion and Modernization Project.
- CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee on grant application/award for FY 2024 Missing and Unidentified Human Remains Program.
- CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee on acceptance of the 2023 Urban Search and Rescue Task Force Cooperative Agreement Supplemental Grant.
- CONCURRED with Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee on acceptance of the 2025 Community Services Block Grant.
- CONCURRED with Transportation Committee to amend codes to consolidate the Board of Taxicab Commissioners with the Board of Transportation Commissioners.
- APPROVED Motion and Ordinance to add Article 16 to Chapter 6, Division 5 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code to establish a Transportation Communications Network Revenue Fund.
- APPROVED Motion and NOTED and FILED City Clerk report on feasibility of adding a digital component to the Proposition 218 protest submittal process.
- CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee to amend Business Permit Fee Schedule (Section 103.12 of Division 4 of Article 3 of Chapter X of the LAMC).
- CONCURRED with Public Safety Committee to adjust Board of Police Commissioners service fees for FY 2024-25.
- CONCURRED with Housing and Homelessness Committee on CAO report regarding HHAP-6 grant application and potential cash flow/reimbursement agreement with LAHSA and the County.
- APPROVED Budget Motion to disburse quarterly advances for all Interim Housing contracts administered by LAHSA.
- APPROVED AS AMENDED Budget Motion to identify funding to restore contractual services for the Mobile Hygiene Centers Program.
- APPROVED AS AMENDED Energy and Environment Committee report establishing a pilot program for underground mechanized waste and recyclable material collection.
- CONSIDERED and addressed multiple closed-session legal matters and City Attorney reports related to litigation, including matters arising from the July 11, 2021 Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant flooding incident and numerous trip-and-fall and other claims.
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