Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass will be making multiple stops throughout the city this week to highlight work her administration has done or is embarking on, ahead of her one-year anniversary as the city’s chief executive coming up on Dec. 12.
The mayor kicked things off on Monday, Dec. 4, with two press conferences to highlight progress in improving city services and addressing climate change. Later this week, she is scheduled to discuss her administration’s work to promote businesses, address the housing and homelessness crises and to deal with public safety.
On Monday morning, Bass headed to San Pedro, where, standing next to a broken sidewalk scheduled for repairs this week, she spoke of efforts to improve city services, including fulfilling basic requests by Angelenos for things like cracked sidewalks or pothole repairs.
“The progress we’ve made is important, but there are still so much more to do,” Bass said. “Los Angeles is a world-class city that deserves world-class services, and that is what we are working to deliver.”
Among the issues that have not been fully resolved is the city’s widespread staffing shortage, an area elected officials on Monday acknowledged needs attention.
The mayor’s office released figures outlining what the city has undertaken in the roughly 12 months that Bass has been in office. According to the mayor’s office:
- City departments fulfilled about 2.5 million “311” requests for non-emergency city services, about 100,000 more requests than in the previous year. Services included bulky trash pickups (601,730 requests filled), graffiti removal (317,546), pothole repairs (51,518), streetlight outages (15,765), street sweeping (13,727) and downed tree limbs (22,628).
- More than 2,500 Angelenos have been hired since December 2022 to fill city job vacancies, with the Board of Public Works hosting four career fairs to draw in applicants.
- LA Metro, the county’s public transportation system – Bass is the chair…
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