Mayor Garcetti issued a rare last-minute veto Monday evening, rejecting a city council spending plan to distribute $88.8 million to a range of projects in all 15 council districts.
In an accompanying letter, Garcetti said far too many of the proposed expenditures do not meet the demands of the moment or the call of history.
He said the council should go back to the drawing board and prioritize investing in solutions for:
racial justice and income inequality
jobs for city workers from vulnerable communities facing furloughs and layoffs
alternatives to policing like a pilot program featuring mental health specialists responding to non-violent 9-1-1 calls.
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Los Angeles County drops COVID restrictions on religious worship
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Los Angeles Finally Agrees to Supreme Court Worship Ruling: No Pastor, Church. Should Have to Choose Between Worship and Prison
12-21-2020
On Monday, the Los Angeles County Health Department finally dropped the county s COVID restrictions against religious gatherings and also removed the attendance limits on worship services.
The Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit religious rights law firm, said the county s public health department issued a Revised Temporary Order that specifies that houses of worship in Los Angeles can now conduct services indoors with no numerical or percentage caps and only social distancing between separate households.
LA County officials took this action after waiting nearly a month since the US Supreme Court ruled these types of restrictions are wrong. Back in November, the high court had granted an emergency petition on behalf of New York City synagogues and Roman Catholic churches in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo and Agudath Isra