March 16, 2025 • 34 mins
Michael Monks opens the show by examining the impact of the Downtown LA Macy’s closing and what the disappearance of true department stores signals about the state of local business. He then speaks with LA County Supervisor Horvath about the county’s new homeless department and the upcoming motion aimed at addressing homelessness. Michael wraps up the hour by highlighting troubling wildlife news—from a missing eaglet from Jackie and Shadow’s nest to murdered crows in Westchester, NY, and a California Condor that succumbed to lead poisoning at the LA Zoo.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
We're with you tonight till nine o'clock and we got
lots to talk about tragedy and Big Bear. One fewer
eagle living in the nest. A baby eaglet has died.
I told you last week. As tens of thousands of
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people watch this live stream, we need to be reminded
it's not some wholesome animated film. It's the real world
and nature is scary. I'm watching the live feed right
now along with thirty eight thousand others, and it is
a pile of death. I mean just a pile of
dead food, animals that were once minding their own business,
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living their lives, piled highs the mountains, and one less
eagle there. Now, it's sad. These eagles have a very
small chance of survival and we're now down to two.
So the family of five is now a family of four.
And look, this is tragic, it's sad, scary, but those
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baby eagles are not the only birds in LA to
have had a bad time recently, it is a dangerous
time to be a bird in Los Angeles. We didn't
just lose this eglet in Big Bear. Hundreds of crows
are apparently being killed in Westchester, and a homegrown condor
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has died of lead poisoning after apparently ingesting an air bullet.
So the danger of being a bird in Los Angeles,
We're going to talk more about that at the bottom
of this hour. I know a lot of us are
shaken up by this eagle family that we had become
invested in, and now there's one less member of that family.
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Stay tuned. We'll talk about all the birds and all
the dangers they're facing right now. Not good. But first
I want to talk about another tragedy. Last Sunday, I
walked through the remnants of the Macy's store in downtown
Los Angeles for the very last time. It's closed its
doors for good, just hours after I left Macy's. I mean,
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we know they've been closing stores all across the country,
so it wasn't a complete shock. But this is downtown
Los Angeles, the central business district of the second largest
city in the country, and now it has no Macy's
and Not only does it have no Macy's, it has
no full service department store, No Nordstrom, no Bloomingdale's, not
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even our Coals. LA magazine reported without Macy's, downtown LA
is now without a department store for the first time
in a century and a half, one hundred and fifty years.
So what has changed in downtown LA between now and
all the way back to what eighteen seventy five? Why
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is downtown Los Angeles no longer able to support a
department store. I've been in Chicago. It's another large city
that faces a lot of the same trouble as LA does.
But its downtown is clean, and its Magnificent Mile is
so aptly named. It's full of major retailers, all the
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big brands, and it feels safe. It feels fun. It's
fun to shop there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
New York.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
New York has problems, but you can certainly shop in Manhattan,
not here. I walked through that mostly empty Macy's on
Sunday and all that was left were rugs and mannequins.
You could buy a bust of boobies for sixty bucks.
It was tempting, but really it looked like a sea
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of corpses lined up waiting to be taken away, and
to me, the inside of that store at that moment
was an unfortunate reflection of what happens outside of it.
You could not walk to Macy's at the Block in
downtown LA without stepping over bodies, elbowing your way through
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street beggars bent over from their drug addiction, or even
abusing drugs right out there for everyone to see. Downtown
La is filthy. It often stinks of p It's pretty shocking.
I live there, It's my neighborhood, and nearly every day
I find myself wondering, how does a city as important
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as Los Angeles allow its most important neighborhood to look
like this and to feel like this. There are a
lot of people down there who want to make it better.
Lots of people are actually making investments in downtown La
Adidas now has a flagship store there that opened recently.
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We got more high rise residences that are opening, more
high rise residences that are being built. But it seems
as long as the city accepts its downtown as an
open air toilet, it will never be able to compete
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to its fullest potential. It's depressing, and it feels more
depressing to me because sometimes it feels like it's by design.
Now there is yet another plan afoot to better address
homelessness and vagrancy in Los Angeles and in LA County.
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We might have ourselves a new homeless department, just in
time for all of us to start paying a billion
dollars more every year in support of these programs. Now,
that's coming after multiple scathing audits of how our homeless
program money is spent. So can we believe that this
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time will be better if we're no longer relying on
the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority for the bulk of
these payouts and we simply turn to Los Angeles County itself,
even though the county is part of LASA along with
the city. That's what we're going to have to keep
an eye on. Ella County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath says, this
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is the right move. This is the direction we need
to go in to make sure that these funds are
better managed and that the outcomes are better. So how
is she going to convince us of that? She's going
to join us next to tell us why we should
believe that this time will be better? That's coming up next.
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On Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
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This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
We're with you tonight till nine o'clock. Yet another audit
has found trouble with the accounting of homeless programs in
LA this time a court ordered one involving the City
of La in the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which
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is co governed by the city and the county. Now
the county is set to move to create its own
homeless department. Here to talk about it is LA County
Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, Supervisor Horrorbath. Thank you so much for
joining us.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, this is not the first audit that has found
some discrepancies and raised questions in the way money has
been allocated to combat homelessness in LA County, the City
of la and LASA in particular. I know you're not
happy about this. What was your reaction when you saw
this report?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Frustrating because it just yet another reminder of how broken
this system is, and you know how difficult it is
for people to really decipher what is happening inside this system.
While there's plenty of room for critique, I also don't
think that this audit fully gets to the bottom of
what the issues are. It just reminds us of how
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we experience them out in the world. And you know,
with living with this crisis of homelessness as we have
in Los Angeles for this many years, those of us
who are in leadership roles, it should be easy for
us to understand and navigate. It's how to navigate this
system and how we get people help, how we connect
them to services, where our money is going, what the
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measurable outcomes have been. And yet those basic questions still
are so complicated to answer because of all of this
responsibility being siloed and strewn across various departments and agencies,
and it makes everyone crazy. There's no there's no doubts
that we need resources in this system, and I am
grateful that the voters know that and gave us Measure
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A to make sure that we continue to have funding.
But they also gave us Measure A for accountability, and
that's why I'm committed to making sure we're doing our
part and cleaning up our backyard on the county side.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I have questions about Measure A. I'm going to get
to those. You sent a statement out shortly after this
audit was released, and you refer to this as dysfunction.
We can't accept this dysfunction any longer. How long has
this system been dysfunctional? In your view?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
For too long? I mean lots of what created out
of a court decision around the turn of the century
oftensively to address the issue of street homelessness, and that
the City of Los Angeles did not feel they were
getting the kind of response they needed from the county
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and addressing that issue, and so this JPA joint powers
authority with cre created between the city and the county.
Over time, a lot of responsibility has been ticked to LASA.
You know, Oh, have LASA do it? Okay? Well, that
responsibility has been passed to LASA, But the intentional buildout
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of what LASA is now has not happened. So while
there were additional responsibilities and even more significant investment of
dollars placed there, there wasn't intentional build out. There wasn't
a scaling up, And certainly when Measure H was passed,
a huge influx of resources, specifically funding came into LASA
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to then be distributed to the region because LASA wasn't
only working for the city and county anymore, but for
the entire region. But they didn't build out thoughtfully and
intentionally what that infrastructure needed to look like. And so
now for years we've had issues and questions around accountability
and transparency of funding and a service provision. And so
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that's why I've been saying this is a systemic problem.
You can say what you want about the people themselves
who have been within the system, but I think this
system was never set up to succeed in the first place,
and I think that is something we have to fundamentally
take on. We can't just tinker around the edges and
just create a new program to say, oh, we're seeing
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results now, so it's all fine. It's not fine at
the root of how this system is structured. It's dysfunctional
and it needs to be changed.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It wasn't that long ago that we heard some of
the vendors, the contractors I should say, that provide the
homeless services on the street come to both LA City
Hall and to a Board of Supervisors meeting at the
County to say, look, we're not being paid fast enough
to continue to deliver the services that we need to do.
They were talking about the fact that they needed to
borrow money. So we learned during those meetings that it's
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difficult to even disperse money from LASA, And then from
these audits, we learned that it's not properly accounted for.
There are contracts that are written now without specific goals
and measurable outcomes as you just reference. I just don't
understand how two powerful governments like the City of Los
Angeles and the County of Los Angeles could work together
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on a project like this and allow it to mount
to a situation like this. Can you help me understand?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I couldn't agree more. That's why I put myself on
the LASA commission. You know, when I came into office,
I was really frustrated with the homelessness situation, as were
many Angelina's and I think that's why they elected me
to sort of get in there and deal with this issue.
And I was of two minds when I first came in.
You know, I didn't hear a lot of glowing remarks
about LOASA and how it was delivering service. So I
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could just come in and say, you know, let's get
rid of LASA, but I chose instead to really try
to understand the problem more. And so I understand I'm
the first supervisor to ever appoint myself to the LASA
Commission because from my advantage point to your point and
to your point too, this is a relationship between the
city and county. That's what it was created for. This
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idea that LASA is some external entity for which we
are not accountable couldn't be further from the truth. LASA
is a joint powers authority of the city in the county.
So I went there put myself on the commission to
say what is going on here? And you know, the
biggest takeaway that I had after serving for two years
on the commission is that the Commission isn't really driving
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the action of the staff on a daily basis. They are,
you know, by statute, the authority that that has to
approve some of the you know, direction and the work
of the staff. But we would hear on a routine
basis that elected officials from the city or county, or
you know, leadership from both of those entities, which are
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the primary funders of LASA would call staff asking for
any number, making any number of requests, whether it was
data or sending out teams, and all of that sounds reasonable.
But if you can just call staff directly and not
work through the commission, you know, as opposed to how
the Metro board works, for example, where the Metro Board
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directs how Metro staff works, and Metro staff then has
to communicate the work what they're doing to the Metro
Board in order for work to be done. That's not
how it works at LASA. And so there were things that,
even while I was serving as chair, never came to
my desk or my attention that were being handled and
addressed by staff because an elected official would call and
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make a request. And that was incredibly frustrating, and I
think that also shows the dysfunction. When I became care
of LASA, I called each of the city council members
in Los Angeles and obviously spoke with the mayor and
she eventually appointed herself to the commission too, and spoke
with my colleagues about, you know, what their history had
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been with LASA and how they would like to see
the agency interfacing differently with their respects offices with the
county and city respectively, and you know, really tried to
be proactive in terms of how we could turn a
corner on this whole issue. And after I reached out
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in those initial conversations, there wasn't a lot of proactive
outreach back. People just call Loss of staff and give
that direction. So it's very clear to me that the authority,
even though on paper it's with the Commission, in practice
it certainly isn't. And I think that also contributes to
a lot of the dysfunction because that's supposed to be
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the oversight for what LOSS is doing, when in reality,
the Commission isn't always aware of what's happening behind the
scenes with staff.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll continue our conversation with Supervisor Horvath. We're about to
put more money into homeless programs. Will it be better
managed this time around?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you tonight till nine o'clock. We're talking about
La County's plan to bring the bulk of its homeless
programs under a new Department and away from the LA
Homeless Services Authority. Our guest is LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath.
Voters last November did agree by fifteen percentage points. In fact,
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it wasn't even a close election to increase the county
sales tax to put more money into homeless services. With
all of this going on, all of these questions being
raised about the financial practices of the effort to combat
homelessness in this region, now, how are you to convince
voters that that was a good idea that this time
will be better?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I will say, despite the dysfunctions that exists in the system,
we saw for the first time last year both city
and county were able to show a difference. Now it wasn't,
you know, the overwhelming difference that we know, Angeline want
to see. But given the dysfunction, the fact that we've
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still been able to move in a different direction, a
better direction, that shows me that the work that's being
done by our service providers is meaningful and what needs
to happen is to focus those resources that the public
has entrusted to us in the places that work and use.
Measure AH, which the voters passed to also take resources
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away from where they're not being used wisely. That didn't
exist before in the previous ballot measure, and that directive
didn't come from the voters, you know, in the way
that it did and Measure A. And so I'm really
taking that part of Measure A to heart. It's not
just about, you know, having an influx of cash, it's
also how do we make sure that those dollars are
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used responsibly. And another key component in this measure is
the fact that they gave us authority to use that
funding not only for service provision, which the previous ballot
measure did. Services said, get out there, provide service, even
if people are on the street, they deserve to be served.
But what that led to is people languishing on the
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streets and people not really moving away from them. This
measure also provides funding for housing, and that's what people
want to see. They want to see people getting off
the streets. They want to see them getting the support
that they need. But they want to make sure that
this crisis isn't playing out, you know, on the street
corner and right in front of their house or in
front of their businesses. They want people to get help,
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but they want it to be in a safe place.
And this measure finally marries services and housing provisions and says,
if the funding that's allocated directly to cities isn't being used,
well we take it away and redirect it to where
it needs to go. If if the funding for housing
isn't working, then we redirect that through the newly created
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LACASA agency. There is direct accountability in this measure, and
that wasn't there before, and I am grateful that the
vote not only gave us resources but also very clear
direction on accountability and transparency.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You've moved to have La County create its own department
and this would move fast. Your suggestion is that it
would start by the middle of the summer basically or
in July first. Really can the county do this? I
mean it's a big government and do you have the
capacity to add a new department that would have a
responsibility for seventy five thousand homeless people in La County?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So I want to be very clear, we are not
adding a new department. We are consolidating work that is
already happening inside the county across something like fourteen different departments.
Do you want to know why why it's hard to
track and keep accountable to the dollars and services. That's
not the best way to do this. So yes, it
is functionally a new department, but it's bringing services that
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are already happening in a county under one umbrella, so
they're easier to track and be accountable for. And I
believe that vote delivered Measure A not only with the
intent for there to be increased funding, but also increased oversight.
So we have to take that directive responsible, you know,
responsibly into heart. And so you know, I don't think
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we should be investing, especially given the audience that came
out you know, at the end of last year from
the county and the most recent one about what's going
on in you know, the services world. I don't think
we should be giving more money to a system that
we know is already broken. We need to move quickly,
we need to move with intention. And if we just
sort of say, oh, you know, come back to us
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when you think it's ready, we know that things will
move at a glacial pace. You know. In my opinion,
I think we're not going to move fast enough if
we take this whole next year, because our motion allows
for this department to be stood up in full by
the middle of next year, and that came from feedback
that we had heard that the initial timeline that I
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was pushing was you know, characterized is very aggressive. Okay,
call it aggressive. It's accountability. That's what people want to see.
Last year, in about twenty days, the county was able
to stand up a new system of how we pay
for our as you referenced earlier, contracted service providers in
the homelessness services system who were carrying so much interest
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on the work that they had already done. We were
able to change that system in less than a month.
So I know when the county wants to move quickly,
it can. And in this issue, when we've declared a
state of emergency, when it has been the top issue
for a number of election cycles now and certainly for
a number of years for Angelino's, we've got to get
this in order. And we can't just say, like, just
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let it continue. As I've said earlier, there are new
initiatives that have been brought forward to deliver results, but
not a dismantling of what hasn't worked, and we can't
allow those resources to continue to be invested in things
that we know aren't working. Our resources are too precious,
they are not unlimited, and they have come with very
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specific direction from the voters.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I know you got to run, but there's seventy five
thousand homeless people in La County, more than half of
them are in La City. Proper. As I understand it,
LASSO was a joint effort by the county and the city.
You gave a little bit of history on how they
came about, but this is still a problem that needs
to be addressed by both governments. This experiment appears to
have not worked out the way folks wanted it to,
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with you moving to create a department of homelessness within
the county structure, and then the city also talking about
doing the same thing. What are we to make about
the county government and the city government's relationship and addressing
this crisis moving forward?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I think this is you. I've spoken with council
Member Monica Rodriguez about her intentions, and I'm optimistic about
what that can mean, because if we both stand up
functional systems that track our dollars and have a clear
division of responsibility, who's responsible for what and how that
relationship is supposed to work together. I think this is
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an opportunity for us to turn the page on what
hasn't worked and set us up for a more successful future.
I appreciate that the courts, you know, directed LASSA to
exist for that specific purpose way back when. But everything
that's been placed on its plate over this number of
years hasn't turned out in the way that we intended,
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and so it's time for us to take that responsibility back,
for us to not just you know, pretend like loss
is this external entity that's going to get it together.
We are in charge of it, and we have to
be responsible public stewards of the public dollars and make
sure that we are using those dollars for the best
of our ability. I don't think this JPA delivered the
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kind of intentional coordination that that was intended. It requires
elected officials to take that upon themselves. I'm grateful to
see that they're people on the city side who are
having this conversation. I'm grateful to have the support of
Chair Catherine Barger on my motion, and I hope that
we will have a majority of support from our colleagues,
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so we actually have at the table people who are
ready to say it's time for us to take responsibility
of this issue and do something different.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horrbath, thanks so much for taking
some time at chat with us. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Up next, a bad week for birds in LA. We've
lost an eaglet, crows are reportedly being shot dead, and
a homegrown condor dies of lead poisoning.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
This is Michael Monk's reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
We're with you till nine o'clock tonight. And quick update
from Big Bear right now on the live stream. More
than twenty seven thousand people still watching this live feed
of that nest, and I gotta tell you the screen
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is black. They don't even have the night vision on.
Right now. You can see like a flickering light in
the upper left corner. I don't know if it's the
moon some device, but it's not like other nights where
the night vision is on and you can have a
general sense of the movement and the position of the
eagles and the eaglets, but it's black, and black is
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the symbol worn in tragic times, and it is a
tragic time in Big Bear, the snow covered mountains, the
snow covered birds also draped in a period of morning
now Friday morning. Yesterday we saw one of the parents
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feeding the babies, but only two of the babies were there.
Where was the third? That has been the question plaguing
the minds of countless people across LA across the country.
And we got word today from Big Bear that officials
there believe there's a dead eglet in that nest. Didn't
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fall out, wasn't carried off by some predator, but is
somewhere in that nest dead. And so that's very sad,
and it only adds to the carnage of this nest
of destruction that we have been watching for so long.
I can't believe how brutal this nest is. I mean,
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the eagle is a symbol of America. It's been amazing
to watch. And a baby anything is of course cute
and charming, and these eaglets are no different. I mean,
a baby snake is cute for crying out loud, but
this is special because it means a lot to Big Bear.
It means a lot for these particular eagle parents that
we followed for years. We know a heart. It's been
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in recent years for them to reproduce successfully and then
to get three eglitz. Everybody's spirits were so high, But
the reality is the odds were always stacked against these birds,
and the odds are stacked against the other birds nearby.
I mean, there was before it got dark up there,
when this show started, almost an hour ago, it was
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a pile of dead crows in that nest, guts spilling out,
rodents are brought up. Somebody told me they had a duck.
These eagles are eating duck in this economy. I guess
if you have one less mouth to feed, you can't
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eat some fancier meats fish. It's brutal up there. It's
terrible and it's very sad. I know that a lot
of people are invested in the success of these birds.
I know a lot of people here at KFI are
just wild about the eglets. It's been a tough, tough
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twenty four hours, thirty six hours here as we watch
this unfold. But sadly it appears word from Big Bear officials,
friends of Big Bear. That eglet is dead and it's
in the nest. We can't see it, maybe covered in snow,
but it's not the only dead bird in that nest
right now. This nest is disgusting. It's covered in death, blood, guts,
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and the trouble is it's been a tough stretch for
birds connect to LA. It's not just a dead eaglet
in Big Bear. Somebody is shooting and killing crows in Westchester.
Apparently this has been going on for a while, but
it's picked up steam. Someone's really mad at the crows,
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and frankly, you might have some suspects in Big Bear.
We have it established that these eagles do not like crows.
Are they armed? Someone is? Someone is using some sort
of air gun. Apparently one hundred crows shot dead in
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this neighborhood, and one resident told the La Times. In
the beginning, the shootings were months apart, but recently it
has escalated. It always follows the same pattern. You hear
pop pop pop, or you hear a gunfire, a crow
gets hit, and then you just hear the crows go wild.
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This neighbor estimates that as many as one hundred birds
have been killed, including two hawks. That is a federal crime.
You could be fined up to fifteen thousand dollars for
killing a hawk. So all the neighbors in Westchester are
terrified about this carnage. Dead crows all over the place.
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They're concerned that a child, or a dog or a
cat could be heard here. A murder of crows in Westchester.
Another sad story involving a bird with LA connections. A
condor who was hatched successfully at the La Zoo and
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then released in Redwood National Park in northern California, has
also died. In a pathology examination, according to The Times,
found an air gun pellette in his gizzard and high
concentrations of lead in his liver and bone led to
his death. Apparently, lead poisoning is the single biggest threat
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to condors and responsible for around half of all of
their deaths. This was a bird named payin no Payowalk,
been flying around the back country of Redwood National Park
for only a few month months, eighteen months old, youngest
bird in the flock of eighteen. Apparently the Uruk tribe
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takes care of these condors up there as they try
to rebuild the population. Well, they have one fewer now
the name pain no payo walk, according to the tribe,
means I am friend or kind or good nature. And
now he's dead. So it's tough out there for a bird.
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It's tough out there for a bird in Big Bear.
It's tough out there for a bird in Westchester. It's
tough out there for a bird in Redwood National Forest.
Scary times. And the screen is still black on the
Big Bear bald eagle live nest. So I don't expect
any further updates tonight. But when the sun comes comes
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up in the morning, what horrors await us. I'm not
a pessimistic guy. I refuse to be invested in this.
I knew this was coming. It's a scene of horrible,
horrifying carnage every day anyway. And now there is a
dead eaglet. And eventually we're gonna see it, aren't we?
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Are they gonna eat it? I don't know. I don't
want to see that. Prayers going up. We got another
hour ahead. We're gonna get back into some interesting conversations
about what's going on around Los Angeles, including Mayor Bass's
political prospects. I told you before. I think we talked
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a week or so maybe two weeks ago that she's
basically tweeting through it, mayoring through it all of the
negative commentary around her performance during and after the wildfires. Tomorrow,
she will kick off the LA Marathon in the morning,
just being the mayor of La and not really giving
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in to a lot of these commentary as to say
she's not done a good job. But there's a poll
out that confirms a lot of people's suspicions that she's
not well received. Right now, we're gonna get into some
of those numbers, and I want to put into the
context of the city council vote about the fire chief,
where I thought some more city council members might see
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a chance to distinguish themselves from any potential political baggage
as we head into another election year next year. But
their numbers aren't great either. We're gonna get into that,
and I'm also gonna share with you. You know, every
once in a while, you come across something on social
media that actually seems worthwhile to watch. I found some
really interesting commentary from a well respected political observer who
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specifically talks about why the Democratic Party in California has
made a lot of mistakes and they have a limited
amount of time to figure out how to fix their
situation and their own electoral prospects. And I'm gonna have
some of those clips for you and we'ld let them
know what you think about it, as well as Michael
Monks reports Another hour ahead right here on kf I
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We're with you tonight till nine o'clock and we got
lots to talk about tragedy and Big Bear. One fewer
eagle living in the nest. A baby eaglet has died.
I told you last week. As tens of thousands of
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people watch this live stream, we need to be reminded
it's not some wholesome animated film. It's the real world
and nature is scary. I'm watching the live feed right
now along with thirty eight thousand others, and it is
a pile of death. I mean just a pile of
dead food, animals that were once minding their own business,
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living their lives, piled highs the mountains, and one less
eagle there. Now, it's sad. These eagles have a very
small chance of survival and we're now down to two.
So the family of five is now a family of four.
And look, this is tragic, it's sad, scary, but those
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baby eagles are not the only birds in LA to
have had a bad time recently, it is a dangerous
time to be a bird in Los Angeles. We didn't
just lose this eglet in Big Bear. Hundreds of crows
are apparently being killed in Westchester, and a homegrown condor
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has died of lead poisoning after apparently ingesting an air bullet.
So the danger of being a bird in Los Angeles,
We're going to talk more about that at the bottom
of this hour. I know a lot of us are
shaken up by this eagle family that we had become
invested in, and now there's one less member of that family.
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Stay tuned. We'll talk about all the birds and all
the dangers they're facing right now. Not good. But first
I want to talk about another tragedy. Last Sunday, I
walked through the remnants of the Macy's store in downtown
Los Angeles for the very last time. It's closed its
doors for good, just hours after I left Macy's. I mean,
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we know they've been closing stores all across the country,
so it wasn't a complete shock. But this is downtown
Los Angeles, the central business district of the second largest
city in the country, and now it has no Macy's
and Not only does it have no Macy's, it has
no full service department store, No Nordstrom, no Bloomingdale's, not
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even our Coals. LA magazine reported without Macy's, downtown LA
is now without a department store for the first time
in a century and a half, one hundred and fifty years.
So what has changed in downtown LA between now and
all the way back to what eighteen seventy five? Why
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is downtown Los Angeles no longer able to support a
department store. I've been in Chicago. It's another large city
that faces a lot of the same trouble as LA does.
But its downtown is clean, and its Magnificent Mile is
so aptly named. It's full of major retailers, all the
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big brands, and it feels safe. It feels fun. It's
fun to shop there.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
New York.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
New York has problems, but you can certainly shop in Manhattan,
not here. I walked through that mostly empty Macy's on
Sunday and all that was left were rugs and mannequins.
You could buy a bust of boobies for sixty bucks.
It was tempting, but really it looked like a sea
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of corpses lined up waiting to be taken away, and
to me, the inside of that store at that moment
was an unfortunate reflection of what happens outside of it.
You could not walk to Macy's at the Block in
downtown LA without stepping over bodies, elbowing your way through
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street beggars bent over from their drug addiction, or even
abusing drugs right out there for everyone to see. Downtown
La is filthy. It often stinks of p It's pretty shocking.
I live there, It's my neighborhood, and nearly every day
I find myself wondering, how does a city as important
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as Los Angeles allow its most important neighborhood to look
like this and to feel like this. There are a
lot of people down there who want to make it better.
Lots of people are actually making investments in downtown La
Adidas now has a flagship store there that opened recently.
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We got more high rise residences that are opening, more
high rise residences that are being built. But it seems
as long as the city accepts its downtown as an
open air toilet, it will never be able to compete
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to its fullest potential. It's depressing, and it feels more
depressing to me because sometimes it feels like it's by design.
Now there is yet another plan afoot to better address
homelessness and vagrancy in Los Angeles and in LA County.
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We might have ourselves a new homeless department, just in
time for all of us to start paying a billion
dollars more every year in support of these programs. Now,
that's coming after multiple scathing audits of how our homeless
program money is spent. So can we believe that this
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time will be better if we're no longer relying on
the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority for the bulk of
these payouts and we simply turn to Los Angeles County itself,
even though the county is part of LASA along with
the city. That's what we're going to have to keep
an eye on. Ella County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath says, this
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is the right move. This is the direction we need
to go in to make sure that these funds are
better managed and that the outcomes are better. So how
is she going to convince us of that? She's going
to join us next to tell us why we should
believe that this time will be better? That's coming up next.
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On Michael Monks Reports.
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We're with you tonight till nine o'clock. Yet another audit
has found trouble with the accounting of homeless programs in
LA this time a court ordered one involving the City
of La in the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, which
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is co governed by the city and the county. Now
the county is set to move to create its own
homeless department. Here to talk about it is LA County
Supervisor Lindsay Horvath, Supervisor Horrorbath. Thank you so much for
joining us.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, this is not the first audit that has found
some discrepancies and raised questions in the way money has
been allocated to combat homelessness in LA County, the City
of la and LASA in particular. I know you're not
happy about this. What was your reaction when you saw
this report?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Frustrating because it just yet another reminder of how broken
this system is, and you know how difficult it is
for people to really decipher what is happening inside this system.
While there's plenty of room for critique, I also don't
think that this audit fully gets to the bottom of
what the issues are. It just reminds us of how
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we experience them out in the world. And you know,
with living with this crisis of homelessness as we have
in Los Angeles for this many years, those of us
who are in leadership roles, it should be easy for
us to understand and navigate. It's how to navigate this
system and how we get people help, how we connect
them to services, where our money is going, what the
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measurable outcomes have been. And yet those basic questions still
are so complicated to answer because of all of this
responsibility being siloed and strewn across various departments and agencies,
and it makes everyone crazy. There's no there's no doubts
that we need resources in this system, and I am
grateful that the voters know that and gave us Measure
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A to make sure that we continue to have funding.
But they also gave us Measure A for accountability, and
that's why I'm committed to making sure we're doing our
part and cleaning up our backyard on the county side.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I have questions about Measure A. I'm going to get
to those. You sent a statement out shortly after this
audit was released, and you refer to this as dysfunction.
We can't accept this dysfunction any longer. How long has
this system been dysfunctional? In your view?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
For too long? I mean lots of what created out
of a court decision around the turn of the century
oftensively to address the issue of street homelessness, and that
the City of Los Angeles did not feel they were
getting the kind of response they needed from the county
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and addressing that issue, and so this JPA joint powers
authority with cre created between the city and the county.
Over time, a lot of responsibility has been ticked to LASA.
You know, Oh, have LASA do it? Okay? Well, that
responsibility has been passed to LASA, But the intentional buildout
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of what LASA is now has not happened. So while
there were additional responsibilities and even more significant investment of
dollars placed there, there wasn't intentional build out. There wasn't
a scaling up, And certainly when Measure H was passed,
a huge influx of resources, specifically funding came into LASA
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to then be distributed to the region because LASA wasn't
only working for the city and county anymore, but for
the entire region. But they didn't build out thoughtfully and
intentionally what that infrastructure needed to look like. And so
now for years we've had issues and questions around accountability
and transparency of funding and a service provision. And so
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that's why I've been saying this is a systemic problem.
You can say what you want about the people themselves
who have been within the system, but I think this
system was never set up to succeed in the first place,
and I think that is something we have to fundamentally
take on. We can't just tinker around the edges and
just create a new program to say, oh, we're seeing
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results now, so it's all fine. It's not fine at
the root of how this system is structured. It's dysfunctional
and it needs to be changed.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It wasn't that long ago that we heard some of
the vendors, the contractors I should say, that provide the
homeless services on the street come to both LA City
Hall and to a Board of Supervisors meeting at the
County to say, look, we're not being paid fast enough
to continue to deliver the services that we need to do.
They were talking about the fact that they needed to
borrow money. So we learned during those meetings that it's
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difficult to even disperse money from LASA, And then from
these audits, we learned that it's not properly accounted for.
There are contracts that are written now without specific goals
and measurable outcomes as you just reference. I just don't
understand how two powerful governments like the City of Los
Angeles and the County of Los Angeles could work together
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on a project like this and allow it to mount
to a situation like this. Can you help me understand?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I couldn't agree more. That's why I put myself on
the LASA commission. You know, when I came into office,
I was really frustrated with the homelessness situation, as were
many Angelina's and I think that's why they elected me
to sort of get in there and deal with this issue.
And I was of two minds when I first came in.
You know, I didn't hear a lot of glowing remarks
about LOASA and how it was delivering service. So I
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could just come in and say, you know, let's get
rid of LASA, but I chose instead to really try
to understand the problem more. And so I understand I'm
the first supervisor to ever appoint myself to the LASA
Commission because from my advantage point to your point and
to your point too, this is a relationship between the
city and county. That's what it was created for. This
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idea that LASA is some external entity for which we
are not accountable couldn't be further from the truth. LASA
is a joint powers authority of the city in the county.
So I went there put myself on the commission to
say what is going on here? And you know, the
biggest takeaway that I had after serving for two years
on the commission is that the Commission isn't really driving
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the action of the staff on a daily basis. They are,
you know, by statute, the authority that that has to
approve some of the you know, direction and the work
of the staff. But we would hear on a routine
basis that elected officials from the city or county, or
you know, leadership from both of those entities, which are
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the primary funders of LASA would call staff asking for
any number, making any number of requests, whether it was
data or sending out teams, and all of that sounds reasonable.
But if you can just call staff directly and not
work through the commission, you know, as opposed to how
the Metro board works, for example, where the Metro Board
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directs how Metro staff works, and Metro staff then has
to communicate the work what they're doing to the Metro
Board in order for work to be done. That's not
how it works at LASA. And so there were things that,
even while I was serving as chair, never came to
my desk or my attention that were being handled and
addressed by staff because an elected official would call and
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make a request. And that was incredibly frustrating, and I
think that also shows the dysfunction. When I became care
of LASA, I called each of the city council members
in Los Angeles and obviously spoke with the mayor and
she eventually appointed herself to the commission too, and spoke
with my colleagues about, you know, what their history had
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been with LASA and how they would like to see
the agency interfacing differently with their respects offices with the
county and city respectively, and you know, really tried to
be proactive in terms of how we could turn a
corner on this whole issue. And after I reached out
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in those initial conversations, there wasn't a lot of proactive
outreach back. People just call Loss of staff and give
that direction. So it's very clear to me that the authority,
even though on paper it's with the Commission, in practice
it certainly isn't. And I think that also contributes to
a lot of the dysfunction because that's supposed to be
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the oversight for what LOSS is doing, when in reality,
the Commission isn't always aware of what's happening behind the
scenes with staff.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
We'll continue our conversation with Supervisor Horvath. We're about to
put more money into homeless programs. Will it be better
managed this time around?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you tonight till nine o'clock. We're talking about
La County's plan to bring the bulk of its homeless
programs under a new Department and away from the LA
Homeless Services Authority. Our guest is LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath.
Voters last November did agree by fifteen percentage points. In fact,
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it wasn't even a close election to increase the county
sales tax to put more money into homeless services. With
all of this going on, all of these questions being
raised about the financial practices of the effort to combat
homelessness in this region, now, how are you to convince
voters that that was a good idea that this time
will be better?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
I will say, despite the dysfunctions that exists in the system,
we saw for the first time last year both city
and county were able to show a difference. Now it wasn't,
you know, the overwhelming difference that we know, Angeline want
to see. But given the dysfunction, the fact that we've
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still been able to move in a different direction, a
better direction, that shows me that the work that's being
done by our service providers is meaningful and what needs
to happen is to focus those resources that the public
has entrusted to us in the places that work and use.
Measure AH, which the voters passed to also take resources
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away from where they're not being used wisely. That didn't
exist before in the previous ballot measure, and that directive
didn't come from the voters, you know, in the way
that it did and Measure A. And so I'm really
taking that part of Measure A to heart. It's not
just about, you know, having an influx of cash, it's
also how do we make sure that those dollars are
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used responsibly. And another key component in this measure is
the fact that they gave us authority to use that
funding not only for service provision, which the previous ballot
measure did. Services said, get out there, provide service, even
if people are on the street, they deserve to be served.
But what that led to is people languishing on the
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streets and people not really moving away from them. This
measure also provides funding for housing, and that's what people
want to see. They want to see people getting off
the streets. They want to see them getting the support
that they need. But they want to make sure that
this crisis isn't playing out, you know, on the street
corner and right in front of their house or in
front of their businesses. They want people to get help,
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but they want it to be in a safe place.
And this measure finally marries services and housing provisions and says,
if the funding that's allocated directly to cities isn't being used,
well we take it away and redirect it to where
it needs to go. If if the funding for housing
isn't working, then we redirect that through the newly created
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LACASA agency. There is direct accountability in this measure, and
that wasn't there before, and I am grateful that the
vote not only gave us resources but also very clear
direction on accountability and transparency.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
You've moved to have La County create its own department
and this would move fast. Your suggestion is that it
would start by the middle of the summer basically or
in July first. Really can the county do this? I
mean it's a big government and do you have the
capacity to add a new department that would have a
responsibility for seventy five thousand homeless people in La County?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So I want to be very clear, we are not
adding a new department. We are consolidating work that is
already happening inside the county across something like fourteen different departments.
Do you want to know why why it's hard to
track and keep accountable to the dollars and services. That's
not the best way to do this. So yes, it
is functionally a new department, but it's bringing services that
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are already happening in a county under one umbrella, so
they're easier to track and be accountable for. And I
believe that vote delivered Measure A not only with the
intent for there to be increased funding, but also increased oversight.
So we have to take that directive responsible, you know,
responsibly into heart. And so you know, I don't think
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we should be investing, especially given the audience that came
out you know, at the end of last year from
the county and the most recent one about what's going
on in you know, the services world. I don't think
we should be giving more money to a system that
we know is already broken. We need to move quickly,
we need to move with intention. And if we just
sort of say, oh, you know, come back to us
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when you think it's ready, we know that things will
move at a glacial pace. You know. In my opinion,
I think we're not going to move fast enough if
we take this whole next year, because our motion allows
for this department to be stood up in full by
the middle of next year, and that came from feedback
that we had heard that the initial timeline that I
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was pushing was you know, characterized is very aggressive. Okay,
call it aggressive. It's accountability. That's what people want to see.
Last year, in about twenty days, the county was able
to stand up a new system of how we pay
for our as you referenced earlier, contracted service providers in
the homelessness services system who were carrying so much interest
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on the work that they had already done. We were
able to change that system in less than a month.
So I know when the county wants to move quickly,
it can. And in this issue, when we've declared a
state of emergency, when it has been the top issue
for a number of election cycles now and certainly for
a number of years for Angelino's, we've got to get
this in order. And we can't just say, like, just
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let it continue. As I've said earlier, there are new
initiatives that have been brought forward to deliver results, but
not a dismantling of what hasn't worked, and we can't
allow those resources to continue to be invested in things
that we know aren't working. Our resources are too precious,
they are not unlimited, and they have come with very
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specific direction from the voters.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I know you got to run, but there's seventy five
thousand homeless people in La County, more than half of
them are in La City. Proper. As I understand it,
LASSO was a joint effort by the county and the city.
You gave a little bit of history on how they
came about, but this is still a problem that needs
to be addressed by both governments. This experiment appears to
have not worked out the way folks wanted it to,
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with you moving to create a department of homelessness within
the county structure, and then the city also talking about
doing the same thing. What are we to make about
the county government and the city government's relationship and addressing
this crisis moving forward?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, I think this is you. I've spoken with council
Member Monica Rodriguez about her intentions, and I'm optimistic about
what that can mean, because if we both stand up
functional systems that track our dollars and have a clear
division of responsibility, who's responsible for what and how that
relationship is supposed to work together. I think this is
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an opportunity for us to turn the page on what
hasn't worked and set us up for a more successful future.
I appreciate that the courts, you know, directed LASSA to
exist for that specific purpose way back when. But everything
that's been placed on its plate over this number of
years hasn't turned out in the way that we intended,
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and so it's time for us to take that responsibility back,
for us to not just you know, pretend like loss
is this external entity that's going to get it together.
We are in charge of it, and we have to
be responsible public stewards of the public dollars and make
sure that we are using those dollars for the best
of our ability. I don't think this JPA delivered the
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kind of intentional coordination that that was intended. It requires
elected officials to take that upon themselves. I'm grateful to
see that they're people on the city side who are
having this conversation. I'm grateful to have the support of
Chair Catherine Barger on my motion, and I hope that
we will have a majority of support from our colleagues,
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so we actually have at the table people who are
ready to say it's time for us to take responsibility
of this issue and do something different.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
LA County Supervisor Lindsay Horrbath, thanks so much for taking
some time at chat with us. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Up next, a bad week for birds in LA. We've
lost an eaglet, crows are reportedly being shot dead, and
a homegrown condor dies of lead poisoning.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
KFI AM six forty. We're live everywhere in the iHeartRadio app.
This is Michael Monk's reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
We're with you till nine o'clock tonight. And quick update
from Big Bear right now on the live stream. More
than twenty seven thousand people still watching this live feed
of that nest, and I gotta tell you the screen
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is black. They don't even have the night vision on.
Right now. You can see like a flickering light in
the upper left corner. I don't know if it's the
moon some device, but it's not like other nights where
the night vision is on and you can have a
general sense of the movement and the position of the
eagles and the eaglets, but it's black, and black is
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the symbol worn in tragic times, and it is a
tragic time in Big Bear, the snow covered mountains, the
snow covered birds also draped in a period of morning
now Friday morning. Yesterday we saw one of the parents
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feeding the babies, but only two of the babies were there.
Where was the third? That has been the question plaguing
the minds of countless people across LA across the country.
And we got word today from Big Bear that officials
there believe there's a dead eglet in that nest. Didn't
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fall out, wasn't carried off by some predator, but is
somewhere in that nest dead. And so that's very sad,
and it only adds to the carnage of this nest
of destruction that we have been watching for so long.
I can't believe how brutal this nest is. I mean,
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the eagle is a symbol of America. It's been amazing
to watch. And a baby anything is of course cute
and charming, and these eaglets are no different. I mean,
a baby snake is cute for crying out loud, but
this is special because it means a lot to Big Bear.
It means a lot for these particular eagle parents that
we followed for years. We know a heart. It's been
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in recent years for them to reproduce successfully and then
to get three eglitz. Everybody's spirits were so high, But
the reality is the odds were always stacked against these birds,
and the odds are stacked against the other birds nearby.
I mean, there was before it got dark up there,
when this show started, almost an hour ago, it was
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a pile of dead crows in that nest, guts spilling out,
rodents are brought up. Somebody told me they had a duck.
These eagles are eating duck in this economy. I guess
if you have one less mouth to feed, you can't
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eat some fancier meats fish. It's brutal up there. It's
terrible and it's very sad. I know that a lot
of people are invested in the success of these birds.
I know a lot of people here at KFI are
just wild about the eglets. It's been a tough, tough
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twenty four hours, thirty six hours here as we watch
this unfold. But sadly it appears word from Big Bear officials,
friends of Big Bear. That eglet is dead and it's
in the nest. We can't see it, maybe covered in snow,
but it's not the only dead bird in that nest
right now. This nest is disgusting. It's covered in death, blood, guts,
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and the trouble is it's been a tough stretch for
birds connect to LA. It's not just a dead eaglet
in Big Bear. Somebody is shooting and killing crows in Westchester.
Apparently this has been going on for a while, but
it's picked up steam. Someone's really mad at the crows,
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and frankly, you might have some suspects in Big Bear.
We have it established that these eagles do not like crows.
Are they armed? Someone is? Someone is using some sort
of air gun. Apparently one hundred crows shot dead in
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this neighborhood, and one resident told the La Times. In
the beginning, the shootings were months apart, but recently it
has escalated. It always follows the same pattern. You hear
pop pop pop, or you hear a gunfire, a crow
gets hit, and then you just hear the crows go wild.
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This neighbor estimates that as many as one hundred birds
have been killed, including two hawks. That is a federal crime.
You could be fined up to fifteen thousand dollars for
killing a hawk. So all the neighbors in Westchester are
terrified about this carnage. Dead crows all over the place.
(30:01):
They're concerned that a child, or a dog or a
cat could be heard here. A murder of crows in Westchester.
Another sad story involving a bird with LA connections. A
condor who was hatched successfully at the La Zoo and
(30:23):
then released in Redwood National Park in northern California, has
also died. In a pathology examination, according to The Times,
found an air gun pellette in his gizzard and high
concentrations of lead in his liver and bone led to
his death. Apparently, lead poisoning is the single biggest threat
(30:45):
to condors and responsible for around half of all of
their deaths. This was a bird named payin no Payowalk,
been flying around the back country of Redwood National Park
for only a few month months, eighteen months old, youngest
bird in the flock of eighteen. Apparently the Uruk tribe
(31:06):
takes care of these condors up there as they try
to rebuild the population. Well, they have one fewer now
the name pain no payo walk, according to the tribe,
means I am friend or kind or good nature. And
now he's dead. So it's tough out there for a bird.
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It's tough out there for a bird in Big Bear.
It's tough out there for a bird in Westchester. It's
tough out there for a bird in Redwood National Forest.
Scary times. And the screen is still black on the
Big Bear bald eagle live nest. So I don't expect
any further updates tonight. But when the sun comes comes
(31:51):
up in the morning, what horrors await us. I'm not
a pessimistic guy. I refuse to be invested in this.
I knew this was coming. It's a scene of horrible,
horrifying carnage every day anyway. And now there is a
dead eaglet. And eventually we're gonna see it, aren't we?
(32:12):
Are they gonna eat it? I don't know. I don't
want to see that. Prayers going up. We got another
hour ahead. We're gonna get back into some interesting conversations
about what's going on around Los Angeles, including Mayor Bass's
political prospects. I told you before. I think we talked
(32:35):
a week or so maybe two weeks ago that she's
basically tweeting through it, mayoring through it all of the
negative commentary around her performance during and after the wildfires. Tomorrow,
she will kick off the LA Marathon in the morning,
just being the mayor of La and not really giving
(32:57):
in to a lot of these commentary as to say
she's not done a good job. But there's a poll
out that confirms a lot of people's suspicions that she's
not well received. Right now, we're gonna get into some
of those numbers, and I want to put into the
context of the city council vote about the fire chief,
where I thought some more city council members might see
(33:18):
a chance to distinguish themselves from any potential political baggage
as we head into another election year next year. But
their numbers aren't great either. We're gonna get into that,
and I'm also gonna share with you. You know, every
once in a while, you come across something on social
media that actually seems worthwhile to watch. I found some
really interesting commentary from a well respected political observer who
(33:41):
specifically talks about why the Democratic Party in California has
made a lot of mistakes and they have a limited
amount of time to figure out how to fix their
situation and their own electoral prospects. And I'm gonna have
some of those clips for you and we'ld let them
know what you think about it, as well as Michael
Monks reports Another hour ahead right here on kf I
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