Assemblymember Sade Elhawary recently toured our client Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children, meeting with the team behind one of the region’s leading providers of pediatric orthopaedic care.
For more than a century, Luskin has served children and families from its home in South Los Angeles, offering specialized orthopaedic treatment to every young patient regardless of their family’s ability to pay. The visit gave Assemblymember Elhawary a firsthand look at that mission in action and at the care Luskin provides to families throughout South LA and the 57th Assembly District she represents.
The Board of Supervisors appointed former Los Angeles City Councilman Michael Woo on September 29 to the County’s first independent Ethics Commission, giving the seven-member panel enough appointees to begin nominating its remaining members. Woo joins Wilma A. Franco and Amanda Susskind, who were appointed earlier in the month, after the County’s Governance Reform Task Force selected him as its nominee following public interviews. The commission will oversee County laws governing campaign finance, lobbying, conflicts of interest, and governmental ethics. Woo represented the 13th District from 1985 to 1993 as the first Asian American elected to the City Council, where he chaired a committee on governmental ethics and helped steer the 1990 voter-approved ordinance creating the LA City Ethics Commission. Voters approved the commission as part of Measure G in 2024.
The biggest structural change in LA County government in generations takes a major step forward October 7, when the Board of Supervisors takes up the Governance Reform Task Force’s first package of recommendations for the new elected County Executive created by Measure G. The package sets out rules and funding plans for three new offices: the independently elected executive, a county legislative analyst reporting to the Board, and an Office of Budget and Management reporting to the executive. The Task Force is urging the Board to stand up the legislative analyst office immediately, transferring funding and staff now and launching a nationwide search rather than phasing it in by 2028. The stakes are already live, as candidates for the executive position became eligible to raise campaign money on September 7, ahead of the March 2028 primary. The Task Force itself stumbled over transparency in September, delaying a vote after members said closed-door amendments left the package unclear. The full governance transition arrives in December 2028.
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The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on September 29 to adopt the County’s final $54.2 billion budget, closing out the three-phase budget process that began in April. The spending plan is $3.9 billion higher than the version adopted in June, bolstered by roughly $2 billion in unspent funds carried over from last year and $391.1 million in savings from reallocating lower-priority funding. CEO Joseph Nicchitta said the changes avoid cuts to programs and services while preserving a 2% cost-of-living adjustment and a $2,000 one-time bonus for county workers, despite a fourth straight year of slowing local revenue growth. Supervisor Kathryn Barger pointed to more than $2 billion in Eaton Fire damage to public infrastructure as a rebuilding need requiring federal support. Residents can weigh in on budget priorities through County surveys open until October 31.
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