Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors

To offset a potential $182-million budget deficit, Los Angeles County's interim chief administrative officer presented the Board of Supervisors on Friday with suggested cuts that range from slashing general relief and mental health services to eliminating departments that protect consumers, veterans and minorities. After adopting a $12.2-billion budget in June, the supervisors directed the interim administrator, Sandra M.

In a written report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti said his office "acted appropriately and promptly to protect the public and the innocent victims who lost money" to developer Marshall Redman, now facing fraud and theft charges in connection with his sale of high desert property. "Our investigation of Redman is ongoing.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked voters in November to approve a $319-million bond measure designed to improve parks, buy open space and provide new recreational facilities, despite criticism that tax-weary voters will reject it. The average homeowner would pay between $6 and $7 annually if the measure is approved by voters in this fall's general election.

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti's written explanation Tuesday of why his office didn't press charges against developer Marshall Redman until last month was not good enough for three county supervisors, who said they want him to appear in person before the board. "This is insufficient," said Supervisor Gloria Molina, referring to a two-page memorandum delivered Tuesday to the five supervisors. "No, this does not satisfy me."

Ratcheting up the debate over Los Angeles County's jail crisis, an angry Sheriff Sherman Block told county supervisors Tuesday that the only way he could afford to open a now-empty jail is by cutting nearly 370 street deputies--and he won't do it. "I absolutely would not reallocate patrol funds to open Twin Towers," Block told the Board of Supervisors, one day after Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky proposed a new plan for opening the $373-million downtown jail to ease inmate overcrowding.

Despite criticism that tax-weary voters will reject it, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked voters to approve a $319-million bond measure in November designed to improve parks, buy open space and provide new recreational facilities. The average homeowner would pay $6 to $7 annually for 20 years if the measure is approved by voters in the November general election.

Postponing the toughest decisions until midsummer, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted a fragile $12.2-billion budget for the new fiscal year Thursday without coming up with the money to open the high-security Twin Towers jail that stands as a monument to the county's fiscal crisis.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors granted Browning-Ferris Industries on Tuesday an operating permit to open Sunshine Canyon landfill. Although the dump, scheduled to open in mid-July, has long been a controversial issue, the board approved the operating permit without discussion. The vote was 4 to 0. Supervisor Mike Antonovich, the area's representative and a longtime opponent of the dump, abstained from the vote.

Calling for an "early warning system" for land fraud, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday created a task force to protect customers of such developers as Marshall Redman, charged last month in a series of desert land sales to unsophisticated Latino buyers in the Antelope Valley.

Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday sharply criticized a newly released report that blames much of the county's financial woes on free-spending practices, saying the report is biased and unfair. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said the study by the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College should be given an "I" grade for incomplete. "I think they doctored it or skewed it in a way designed to achieve a certain result," Yaroslavsky said.