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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.
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Take a morning ride on the Marvin Braude Bike Trail on the Westside and you might spot them Melba and Aubrey Provost, married for more than 60 years, astride their matching black-and-white bicycles.
The Provosts are among L.A.’s most-devoted cyclists. They’ve advocated for bike safety, participated in CicLAvia
since its beginnings in 2010 and once cycled on an empty freeway from downtown L.A. to Pasadena.
In addition to all the time they spend together cycling, the Provosts own and operate two L.A. businesses, Palmer Addressing & Mailing Service Co. and
IVAN Gallery. It’s a lot of togetherness, but that seems to be the way they like it.
L.A. s first lady, Amy Wakeland, navigates shifting political fortunes in final Garcetti years
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Mayor Eric Garcetti and First Lady Amy Wakeland arrive at an International Olympic Committee meeting in 2017 in Lima, Peru. In 2020, the couple faced a string of personal and professional crises like none they had confronted before. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP/ Getty Images)
At the end of a very long and trying 2020, the first lady of Los Angeles recalled the protests over racial injustice and coronavirus restrictions that went on outside her home nearly every day.
Demonstrators chanted into bullhorns and sometimes shouted profanely, Amy Elaine Wakeland said. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s wife said she notified the family’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail whenever the disruptions got so bad that the couple’s 9-year-old daughter couldn’t complete her homework or get to sleep. From March through the end of the year, Wakeland made about 80 complaints in a