Urgent
L.A. Mayor’s 2025-26 Proposed Budget
Urgent
This historic place in Los Angeles County is at risk. We need your help to preserve it.
About This Issue
Faced with a nearly $1 billion budget gap, the Mayor releases a proposed 2025-26 budget that proposes 1,647 layoffs citywide. Among the Departments hit hardest by cuts are the City Planning and the Office of Historic Resources. General cuts to the Department of City Planning will strain housing production, legacy businesses, and homeowners citywide and will increase the time need to get permits or get projects approved. Although City Planning is only 1.6% of the City’s total workforce, the Department will account for 7.2% of the proposed layoffs. Many of these positions are critical to the economic development of the city. Without them it will be increasingly more difficult to start a business, renovate a home, or build new infill housing.
Our Position
Cuts to the Office of Historic Resources will strain the City’s capacity to enforce protections for historic resources and will lead to delays for homeowners, small businesses and developers. OHR positions will be cut by nearly a third from 17 positions to just 12. These cuts include the loss of 3 HPOZ planners, which would require further consolidation of HPOZ boards, less frequent meetings, and more reviews assigned to staff. Also included in the cuts would be the elimination of the only staff person working to update HistoricPlacesLA, marking the end of the City’s 15+ year investment with the Getty in SurveyLA.
The Conservancy calls for the restoration of 5 filled positions from the Office of Historic Resources. This will ensure critical functions of the office can be maintained while still deleting two unfilled positions, and echoes the request from City Planning in their budget memo.
Please read the letter submitted by the Conservancy to learn more about our position.
How You Can Help
How You Can Help
Comments can be submitted to the Council File Management System, which will be shared with the Budget and Finance Committee and full City Council.
If you live in any of the council districts below, please also reach out to your Councilmember directly. These Councilmembers serve on the Budget and Finance Committee. If you live in an HPOZ, National Register District or Historic-Cultural Monument, please share how cuts to OHR will affect you and ask that the 5 filled positions be restored in a revised budget.
Contact Info for Budget and Finance Committee Members
Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky, Chair – CD5
Email: Councilmember.Yaroslavsky@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 473-7005
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield – CD3
Email: councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 473-7003
Councilmember Heather Hutt – CD10
Email: heather.hutt@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 473-7010
Councilmember Tim McOsker – CD15
Email: councilmember.mcosker@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 473-7015
Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez – CD1
Email: councilmember.hernandez@lacity.org
Phone: (213) 473-7001
