LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Oct. 5 approved an additional $2.8 billion in funding for initiatives ranging from revamping the county’s youth justice program to cracking down on illegal cannabis grows in the Antelope Valley, signing off on a final $39.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2021-22. That total will be supplemented by another $975 million in federal stimulus funding in months to come, according to county CEO Fesia Davenport. The budget “is a milestone of all the progress we have made … as we moved through the pandemic and toward a more just and more equitable future for all of our residents,” the CEO told the board. Davenport and the board highlighted what they characterized as a transformative change in county spending to support a vision of “Care First, Jails Last.” A total of $461.5 million is allocated to a host of strategies intended to support …
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