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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has tapped a high-level aide to serve as the city’s top budget official, a post that will be critical as the city grapples with both an intractable homelessness crisis and a lawsuit demanding dramatic action to address it.
Garcetti on Wednesday nominated Deputy Chief of Staff Matt Szabo to be city administrative officer, replacing Rich Llewellyn, a longtime Garcetti advisor who is retiring. Szabo’s nomination requires City Council approval.
Szabo, a City Hall veteran and the mayor’s point person on the budget, has been working to sell council members on Garcetti’s latest spending plan, which calls for restoring services cut during the COVID-19 pandemic, replenishing the city’s emergency reserves and implementing new initiatives aimed at addressing racial and economic inequality.