Media Availability on LA City Budget - City Budget Approval Meeting
11:53PM May 22, 2025
Speakers:
Elizabeth Chou
Katy Yaroslavsky
Keywords:
Is there any room in the budget for, you know, bringing to more trash cans or having trash be picked up more often for people who are at encampments in the in the times in which they're still waiting for housing, and sort of, you know, being like, sort of being told they have to wait. So
each of our councils, council districts, handle this question differently. A lot of us have clean teams that go out and focus on areas where constituents call in, and we also spend extra time at our encampments. So that's how CD five addresses the issue of the extra trash pickup at encampments. And I think, you know, some some people do it differently, but that's generally, I think we're already doing that work, and having heightened trash pickup and cleaning, separate and apart from the care and care busses, there
wasn't very much discussion around that during the budget hearings and things like that, to make