LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Oct. 5 approved an additional $2.8 billion in funding for initiatives ranging from revamping the county’s youth justice program to cracking down on illegal cannabis grows in the Antelope Valley, signing off on a final $39.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2021-22.
That total will be supplemented by another $975 million in federal stimulus funding in months to come, according to county CEO Fesia Davenport.