Lindsey Horvath, Los Angeles County Supervisor, talks about the homeless count numbers on Friday, June 28, 2024. This year’s homeless were down by .27% in Los Angeles County and 2.2% in the city of Los Angeles. On Monday afternoon, firefighters were called to the Sepulveda Basin to respond to a brushfire at a homeless encampment. Ten firefighters were injured, one very seriously, when something exploded in the encampment.How suspenseful.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to place a new sales tax increase on the November ballot for voter approval. The measure is an initiative, and proponents collected signatures from voters in L.A. County to place it on the ballot. The supervisors technically had two choices on Tuesday. They could vote to put on it on the ballot now, or they could vote to request a report to be returned to them in 30 days and then vote to put it on the ballot.
Measure H was expected to take about $355 million per year from L.A. County residents, but by the 2022-23 fiscal year it was taking $527 million. Inflation raises both prices and sales taxes. So the fix is in, a simple majority vote on the new tax-increase measure will raise the sales tax in L.A. County again for homelessness programs. That’s on top of the 2% the county already collects in local sales tax to fund the endless construction of the crime scene known as Metro.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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