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Functional Consolidation of Departments / Aging / Community Investment for Families / Economic and Workforce Development / Youth

Council File 25-0600-S43

Introduced
2025-07-27
Last changed
2026-05-15
Status
open
Expires
2028-05-15
Initiated by
Community Investment for Families Department
References
City Administrative Officer Report: 0220-06347-0000; 0220-06347-0001City Attorney Report: R26-0232

Brief

The Community Investment for Families Department initiated a proposal to consolidate five departments—Aging, Community Investment for Families, Economic and Workforce Development, Youth, and another agency—into one consolidated department to streamline services and improve efficiency. Councilmembers Price and Soto-Martinez moved the motion in December 2025. After review by the Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee; and Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee, Council adopted the consolidation 12-3 on May 19, 2026.

Full summary

The Community Investment for Families Department submitted a proposal in July 2025 to merge four city departments into a single new agency called the Community Investment Department (CID). Under the plan, the Department of Aging, the Economic and Workforce Development Department, and the Youth Development Department would be dissolved, with all of their programs, services, and administrative responsibilities transferred to and consolidated within a renamed Community Investment for Families Department. The restructuring required sweeping changes to the Los Angeles Administrative Code and Municipal Code, including repealing four existing chapters entirely and amending dozens of individual sections, as well as changes to the Los Angeles Planning and Zoning Code. The consolidation is designed to unify under one department all city functions related to aging services, family support, youth development, and economic and workforce programs. The enabling ordinance, drafted by the City Attorney and dated April 17, 2026, formally changes the name of the Community Investment for Families Department to the Community Investment Department and transfers all duties and responsibilities of the dissolved departments to the CID, including the development and administration of all programs and required plans previously under their individual purviews. The file moved through multiple committees over seven months. The Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee and Economic Development and Jobs Committee both approved the item as amended in November 2025, and the Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee approved it as amended in December 2025. Councilmembers Price and Soto-Martinez then moved adoption, which the full Council approved on December 10, 2025, with action becoming final December 18, 2025. No fiscal impact analysis was completed by the City Administrative Officer or Chief Legislative Analyst at the ordinance stage. After the City Attorney issued the implementing ordinance in April 2026, the Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee approved it on May 1, 2026 — with members Rodriguez and Padilla voting no — and the Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee concurred on May 15, 2026, with Rodriguez again dissenting. The Economic Development and Jobs Committee waived consideration. Council took up the ordinance on May 19, 2026, passing it 12-3, subject to the Mayor's approval. The file remains open pending that final mayoral action.

Activity (25)

  • 2026-05-15 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on May 19, 2026.
  • 2026-05-15 Economic Development and Jobs Committee waived consideration of item .
  • 2026-05-15 Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee approved item(s) .
  • 2026-05-08 Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on May 15, 2026.
  • 2026-05-01 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee approved item(s) .
  • 2026-04-28 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on May 1, 2026.
  • 2026-04-20 City Attorney document(s) referred to Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee; Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee.
  • 2026-04-17 Document submitted by City Attorney, dated April 17, 2026.
  • 2025-12-18 Council action final.
  • 2025-12-10 Council adopted Motion (Price - Soto-Martinez) and Economic Development and Jobs Committee report forthwith.
  • 2025-12-05 Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee approved as amended .
  • 2025-12-05 City Clerk scheduled item for Council on December 10, 2025.
  • 2025-12-02 Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on December 5, 2025.
  • 2025-12-02 Document submitted by Chief Legislative Analyst; City Administrative Officer, dated December 2, 2025.
  • 2025-12-02 Chief Legislative Analyst; City Administrative Officer document(s) referred to Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee.
  • 2025-11-07 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee transmitted Council File to Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee.
  • 2025-11-07 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee approved as amended .
  • 2025-11-07 Economic Development and Jobs Committee approved as amended .
  • 2025-10-31 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on November 7, 2025.
  • 2025-10-23 Chief Legislative Analyst; City Administrative Officer document(s) referred to Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee; Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee.
  • 2025-10-22 Document submitted by Chief Legislative Analyst; City Administrative Officer, dated October 22, 2025.
  • 2025-08-19 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee continued item to a date to be determined.
  • 2025-08-15 Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee scheduled item for committee meeting on August 19, 2025.
  • 2025-07-29 Community Investment for Families Department document(s) referred to Civil Rights, Equity, Immigration, Aging, and Disability Committee; Economic Development and Jobs Committee; Government Efficiency, Innovation, and Audits Committee.
  • 2025-07-27 Document submitted by Community Investment for Families Department, dated July 25, 2025.

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