The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is implementing a pilot program to hold smaller meetings before motions are voted on, aiming to increase community engagement. The program, unanimously approved Tuesday, will see motions first discussed at 'county clusters,' meetings open to the public but without votes, before moving to the full Board of Supervisors meeting. The change was supported by groups representing landlords and low-income Angelenos.
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors is moving forward with a plan to run motions through smaller meetings before they come up for a vote.The change aimed at increasing community input was unanimously approved as a pilot program Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors meeting.Supervisor Holly Mitchell said the added step will allow for more community input before the board votes on motions.Groups representing apartment owners and low-income Angelenos both supported the shift.
" In some cases, motions can be placed on board agenda on a Friday…with only a single business day before the Tuesday board meeting when the board votes on them," Mitchell said."This leaves very little time for our county's residents to weigh in on the decisions we make." " It's not often that we're on the same side of something as the Association of Apartment Owners, but we also support this effort to really expand the community's voice in decision making at the county level," said Roxana Tynan with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy during the public comment period.
" The public doesn't generally attend these meetings," Preven said."The people who will benefit from this kind of cluster reorg are the not-for-profits and inside baseball players."The meetings where motions will now be heard can be found on theJennifer Harkins with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County said more could be done to make those meetings accessible.
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