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Just for the Record! Fixed for TACO
It’s official: L.A. has lost at least $2.3 billion through the “Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority” from FYs 2021 – 2024
According to Docket 871: THE ALVAREZ AND MARSAL (A&M) ASSESSMENT OF LOS ANGELES CITY HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS (March 06, 2025) finds that:
“As discussed in detail throughout this report, due to the manner in which the City recorded expenditures for homelessness assistance services ($2.3 billion), A&M was unable to completely quantify the total amount spent by the City for each component of the City Programs using the data provided. Multiple funding sources and allocations across various City departments resulted in fragmented accounting records. A&M identified that the City and LAHSA did not initially provide all requested financial data, prompting A&M to make multiple efforts to identify, trace, and reconcile relevant data as it was produced to A&M. Further, A&M relied on the financial data produced by the City and LAHSA, as A&M did not have direct access to the financial information systems. Therefore, since the City and LAHSA were unable to identify and calculate the relevant expenses for all City Programs, A&M was unable to quantify the total amount of money spent to establish the beds and provide associated supportive services.”
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Here is L.A.’s schedule for Street Sweeping in 2025
For the third year in a row, let your neighbors know!
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Why Should We Be Deported? This is very, very hard for a family
In 1905 Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich Trump, originally born in Kallstadt, a small village in Germany, was threatened with deportation for failing to report for military services in the 1880s and instead migrating to the United States. While in New York during this time, he met his wife, Donald Trump’s grandmother Elisabeth Christ, who herself had immigrated to the U.S. from Kallstadt in 1902.
In an effort to remain in Bavaria, where he had resettled by 1904, Friedrich Trump pleaded with Prince Luitpold, a stand-in leader of Bavaria who himself was only in charge because of his nephews’ mental incapacities for governance.
In the letter quoted above, published by Harper’s Magazine in 2017, Friedrich Trump cites undue hardship upon him and his family due to the news of the pending deportation from Bavaria, noting in particular its adverse effects on his mother, his wife Elisabeth, and his daughter Elizabeth.
Ultimately, Prince Luitpold rejected this plea, and Friedrich Trump and his family were forced to return to the U.S. in June 30, 1905.
Their son Fred, Donald Trump’s father, was born just four months later in October, and due in no small part to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the 14th amendment just seven years earlier, was officially a U.S. citizen for being born here. The rest is Los Cuentos; let the city know!
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J.
LAUSD MARCH 2024 PRIMARIES: RECAP
With L.A. City Council recapped, let’s place LAUSD elections from March into perspective. LAUSD has a board of seven members, each of which is elected every four years. The board meets regularly on Tuesday afternoons, and by a long shot, its most important job is managing L.A. Schools’ annual budget, which in the 2023 – 2024 fiscal year was nearly $19 billion dollars. You can also watch this episode on YouTube.
(1:08) We’re talking about LAUSD this time. Here’s why
(5:18) Board Seat, District 1: Sherlett Hendy-Newbill vs Khallid A. Al-Alhim
(12:17) Board Seat, District 3: Scott Mark Schmerelson vs Dan Chang
(17:50) Board Seat, District 5: Karla Griego vs Graciela “Grace” Ortiz
(21:52) Career Politicians really irk J.T.
(25:56) Board Seat, District 7: Tanya Ortiz Franklin
On a more personal note, this week, on June 21st, the Rios family of East Hollywood buries their two sons, Sergio and Ricardo Rios. Please consider supporting the family as they navigate a new world for Sergio Rios’s two children, each barely more than two years old.
This installment of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast is dedicated to the ongoing, living memory of Sergio Rios Jr. and Ricardo Rios.
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