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A letter by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Long Beach) asks FEMA to reconsider and pay out the funding to cities that are already strapped for cash.

The financial crisis at Los Angeles City Hall has become so serious that city officials have begun looking at the possibility of pushing the payment of certain bills into the next fiscal year, according to a report issued Friday. City Administrative Officer Rich Llewellyn, the city’s top budget official, said his office has asked each city department to prepare a list of contracts with payments due in the last three months of the fiscal year, which ends June 30, to determine which ones could ...

L.A.'s budget shortfall grew to $750 million after Mayor Eric Garcetti and the council failed to obtain sufficient short-term financial concessions from city unions.