Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 4.13 Community Investment and Alternatives to Incarceration Minimum County…

The purpose of this Chapter is to continue setting aside a baseline minimum threshold of at least ten percent (10%) of the County of Los Angeles's (County) locally generated unrestricted revenues in the general fund (Net County Cost) for direct community investment and alternatives to incarceration, as established by voters in November 2020 with approval of Measure J.

(Ord. 2025-0038 § 1, 2025.)

A.

The County shall set-aside a baseline minimum threshold of at least ten percent (10%) of the County's locally generated unrestricted revenues in the general fund (Net County Cost), as determined annually in the budget process or as otherwise

set forth in the County Code or regulations, to be allocated on an annual basis, after input from, among others, the public and County departments at a public hearing, for the following primary purposes:

Direct Community Investment.

a.

Community-based youth development programs.

b.

Job training and jobs to low-income residents focusing on jobs that support the implementation of the "Alternatives to Incarceration" workgroup recommendations as presented to the County Board of Supervisors on March 10, 2020, especially construction jobs for the expansion of affordable and supportive housing, restorative care villages, and a decentralized system of care.

c.

Access to capital for small minority-owned businesses, with a focus on Black-owned businesses.

d.

Rent assistance, housing vouchers and accompanying supportive services to those at-risk of losing their housing, or without stable housing.

e.

Capital funding for transitional housing, affordable housing, supportive housing, and restorative care villages with priority for shovel-ready projects.

Alternatives to Incarceration.

a.

Community-based restorative justice programs.

b.

Pre-trial non-custody services and treatment.

c.

Community-based health services, health promotion, counseling, wellness and prevention programs, and mental health and substance use disorder services.

d.

Non-custodial diversion and reentry programs, including housing and services.

B.

The set-aside shall not be used to fund any carceral system or law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Los Angeles County Superior Courts, or Los Angeles County Probation Department, including any redistribution of funds through those entities. This restriction does not extend State law requiring the County to fund court facilities and expenditures, including, but not limited to, the Trial Court Facilities

Act of 2002 (2002 Senate Bill No. 1732) and Lockyer-Isenberg Trial Court Funding Act of 1997 (1997 Assembly Bill No. 233), other mandatory fines and fees, or any other County commitments to the extent required by law.

C.

The set-aside cannot supplant monies otherwise allocated for the same categories listed in Subsection A, as defined and set forth in the County Code or regulations.

D.

The County shall establish an inclusive and transparent process on the allocation of funds set-aside by Subsection A.

E.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter, the Board of Supervisors may, by a four-fifths vote, reduce the set-aside in the event of a fiscal emergency, as declared by the Board of Supervisors, that threatens the County's ability to fund mandated programs.

(Ord. 2025-0038 § 1, 2025.)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Chapter is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Chapter.

(Ord. 2025-0038 § 1, 2025.)