County of Los Angeles

Recovery Plan 

State and Local Fiscal Recovery 

Funds

2021 Report
County of Los Angeles 2021 Recovery Plan Performance Report 1

County of Los Angeles

2021 Recovery Plan

Table of Contents

General Overview......................................................................................................................3

Executive Summary.................................................................................................................3

Uses of Funds .........................................................................................................................3

Promoting Equitable Outcomes ...............................................................................................4

Community Engagement .........................................................................................................5

Labor Practices .......................................................................................................................5

Use of Evidence ......................................................................................................................5

Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category...........................................................................6

Project Inventory.......................................................................................................................8

Example Project .....................................................................................................................9

Additional Projects...................................................................................................................9

Ineligible Activities: Tax Offset Provision ............................................................................10
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Executive Summary 

The Los Angeles County (County) Board of Supervisors (Board) approved on 

July 27, 2021, a spending plan for the American Rescue Plan (ARP) tranche 1 funds 

totaling $975.0 million across three strategic pillars: (1) $567.9 million for equity-based 

investments to position the County to recover better than before the pandemic; 

(2) $239.7 million to support an equitable and inclusive recovery; and 

(3) $167.4 million to preserve the County’s fiscal stability and shore up our safety net 

programs. 

Taken together, these proposed investments represent a once-in-a-generation 

opportunity for the County, led by this Board, to enact transformative changes in the 

communities hardest hit by the pandemic, and set the foundation for all our residents 

to share in a healthier, more equitable future.

The spending plan responds to the COVID-19 public health emergency and its 

economic impacts with substantial and direct investments in hard-hit disadvantaged 

communities and through programs to address entrenched challenges that have only 

grown worse during the pandemic, ranging from homelessness and deeper levels of 

poverty to the unique needs of immigrants, small businesses, justice-involved 

individuals, and survivors of trauma, including domestic violence and hate crimes.

To date, none of the ARP Projects identified in the Spending Plan have been 

implemented, and program design of the projects continues. Key compliance 

requirements and other indicators such as those related to equity are also being 

identified and evaluated in accordance with Treasury guidance, hence there is nothing

to report related to progress, challenges, or opportunities. These elements will be 

reported on in the next Performance Report to the Treasury due July 31, 2022.

Uses of Funds

The County spending plan for the ARP tranche 1 funding totals $975.0 million spread 

across three Board-approved strategic pillars: (1) $567.9 million for equity-based 

investments to position the County to recover better than before the pandemic; 

(2) $239.7 million to support an equitable and inclusive recovery; and 

(3) $167.4 million to preserve the County’s fiscal stability and shore up our safety net 

programs. Detailed information regarding each pillar is included below. 

FIRST PILLAR: EMERGING FROM THE PANDEMIC BETTER THAN BEFORE 

THROUGH EQUITY-BASED INVESTMENTS

The first strategic pillar includes $567.9 million to ensure the County emerges from 

the pandemic better than before through equity-based programs. 

This pillar recognizes that the Fiscal Recovery Funds represent a 

once-in-a-generation opportunity to address the County’s most acute and impactful 

inequities and proposes investments to address the social determinants which 
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contributed to poor public health outcomes during the pandemic. These investments 

include housing for people experiencing homelessness including through partnerships 

with cities ($400.0 million), creation of more affordable housing ($40.0 million), 

bolstering the Board’s “Care First, Jails Last” vision ($47.1 million), reduce the digital 

divide ($12.0 million), and disrupting the cycle of inter-generational poverty in 

communities historically left out of generational wealth gains ($19.8 million). These 

are just some projects being developed that will be supported by ARP funds. 

SECOND PILLAR: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO AN EQUITABLE RECOVERY

County residents in low-income communities and communities of color, have borne 

the brunt of the pandemic’s negative impacts. This second pillar recognizes the need 

to deploy supportive services through an equity lens to jumpstart recovery for those 

who have suffered the most and are resourced the least.

This pillar invests $239.7 million to provide financial and other services and programs 

to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits ($70.5 million); support for artists 

and professionals and organizations in the creative economy ($21.25 million); create 

employment opportunities for workers and youth ($37.0 million); protect tenants from 

eviction and homeowners from foreclosure ($18.5 million); fund essential childcare, 

recreational, early education, and home visiting programs for families ($49.13 million); 

further address trauma and violence ($10.7 million); and additional food and nutritional 

resources ($32.6 million). 

THIRD PILLAR: FISCAL STABILITY AND SOCIAL SAFETY NET

Throughout the pandemic, the County not only sustained but expanded its safety net 

programs to meet critical public health, economic, and social needs of our community, 

despite drastic revenue reductions and implementing approximately $370.0 million in 

departmental curtailments last fiscal year. The third pillar recognizes the need to 

ensure the County’s system of support to residents – the “safety net” – is on firm 

financial footing as we emerge from the pandemic.

This pillar proposes $167.4 million to shore up the County’s disaster services worker 

program ($65.0 million), and expand the County Fire District’s Advanced Provider 

Response Units, which pairs a nurse practitioner with a firefighter paramedic deployed 

to primarily under-resourced areas, to reduce unnecessary ambulance transports and 

emergency room visits ($12.3 million). 

The pillar also complements other funding by setting aside $17.6 million for ethnic and 

hyperlocal media and community-based outreach such as the community health 

worker and promotores program; backstops a sustained public health response to the 

COVID-19 emergency ($22.5 million); and establishes $50.0 million for eligible capital 

costs for infrastructure that may be needed to meet the County’s most serious public 

health challenges. 
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Promoting Equitable Outcomes 

To address promoting equitable outcomes, the County has developed an Equity 

Toolkit to help departments to align programs with ARP funding allocations with 

identified communities of greatest need. The Toolkit includes a set of screening 

questions as part of an equity assessment, alignment, and evaluation process that 

directs the departments to incorporate and utilize metrics, identify geographic needs, 

and align budget resources with communities most affected by COVID-19 when 

developing their project design plans. These plans will be refined to ensure they 

uphold countywide equity principles and achieve equitable outcomes. The County’s 

Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiative will provide technical assistance and 

training to departments as part of this process, including a suite of support services 

and resources to increase their ability to use the Equity Toolkit to identify communities 

most in need of services, ensure equity is incorporated in their project design and 

inform equitable funding decisions and implementation. The Equity Toolkit also 

includes an Equity Explorer mapping tool, COVID-19 Vulnerability and Recovery Index

(Index), and Equity Funding Formula (Formula) that will work in concert to identify and 

allocate funding to the County’s most vulnerable residents. 

Data shows that County neighborhoods experiencing concentrated poverty (i.e., areas 

with higher percentages of residents under 200 percent of the federal poverty level) 

have nearly three times as many COVID-19 cases than communities with higher 

incomes. Our Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Black, and Latin populations have 

also most consistently faced housing, food, and economic insecurity during the 

pandemic, which has exacerbated the health, social, and economic circumstances 

experienced by low-income communities of color that pre-dated the pandemic. 

To address these disparities and promote equity using both qualitative and 

quantitative data to achieve equitable outcomes, the County worked in collaboration 

with community partners to develop the COVID-19 Vulnerability and Index, and 

Formula as part of the Equity Toolkit to help identify the communities highly impacted 

by COVID-19 case rates and a myriad of economic, health, and social factors. The 

Index includes several proposed indicators that fall across three categories—risk, 

severity, and recovery—and based on those indicators, stratifies communities into five 

need categories, ranging from highest to lowest need. These include:

• Risk

o Percent of essential workers

o Percent of population under 200 percent of federal poverty level

o Percent residing in overcrowded housing units

o Noncitizen population

• Severity

o Percent of population under 200 percent of federal poverty level
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o Percent of population age 75+ in poverty

o Percent of uninsured population

o Heart attack hospitalization rate

o Diabetes hospitalization rate

o Asthma rate

• Recovery Need

o Percent of essential workers

o Percent of population under 200 percent of federal poverty level

o Unemployment rate

o Percent of uninsured population

o Gun injury rate

o Single-parent households

This Index will be a mapping layer in the Equity Explorer that will spatially show areas 

of greatest need across the County based on the identified indicators and help 

highlight need patterns, distributions, and hotspots more easily. The Formula then 

suggests corresponding percentages of allocated resources, the higher the Index 

need category, the higher the percentage of resources allocated based on community 

need and population size. This ensures that ARP funding is prioritized for 

communities that were most affected by COVID-19 and that will need the most support 

to recover.

County departments will be required to design their programs using the Equity 

Explorer and Index. In addition, other data mapping layers will be available to help 

prioritize community investments for specific projects, and to geographically locate the 

highest, high, and moderately need communities. This will guide prioritizing programs

based on availability of resources, as well as promote equitable access to and 

distribution of ARP-funded services and resources. 

Current efforts are also underway to ensure that non-geographically concentrated 

communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic are identified and 

prioritized for ARP allocations and programs. These include, but are not limited to, 

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, and 

immigrant communities. The County has developed strategies and an implementation 

plan to collect data, use indicators, and adopt practices to ensure ARP funding 

supports non-geographically concentrated communities highly affected by the 

COVID-19 pandemic, but that are frequently overlooked based on current data 

collection and reporting methods that underrepresent their COVID-19 related risk, 

severity, and recovery needs. These data strategies range from integrating additional 

validated indicators to identify disproportionately affected and hard-to-count 

populations to adopting alternative methods for data mapping like Public Participation 
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Geographic Information Systems analysis and specifically targeting outreach and 

engagement strategies to reach these communities. 

To address the ability of residents and/or businesses to know the services funded by 

State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds, the County is developing an Equity Explorer 

mapping tool and public-facing website with a dashboard that reports on the County’s 

highly affected communities, available ARP contracting opportunities (i.e., planned 

requests for proposals or competitive bids) ARP-funded projects, and their service 

locations. The County will leverage many outward facing communication platforms

and stakeholder networks to elevate these funding opportunities and funded projects 

through:

• Department listservs, websites, and social media to amplify messaging and 

create linkages to the ARP dashboard.

• Board field deputies and County Commissioners who serve, identify as, and/or 

regularly interact with stakeholder groups that are most hurt by the COVID-19 

pandemic.

• Department-sponsored or affiliated community boards, councils, and 

taskforces.

• County and contracted community health workers who directly engage 

residents and small business owners to ensure outreach to those limited by the 

digital divide. 

County departments will also be required to articulate in their project design plans how 

they will promote equitable awareness of their projects, including a description of how 

limited English-proficient communities will be aware of funding opportunities and 

available services that they are eligible for.

To address outcomes, the County has drafted the countywide Equity Guiding 

Principles, along with ARP-specific budget principles, to help County departments 

weigh considerations throughout the budgeting process and ensure that program, 

policy, and funding decisions align with the Board’s equity goals for ARP fund 

expenditures. Several of the Countywide Equity Guiding Principles and ARP-specific 

budget principles articulate the County’s underlying goal of closing gaps in COVID-19 

community resiliency and recovery outcomes using ARP funds. The equity principles 

are:

Countywide Equity Guiding Principles

• Reduce racial disparities in life outcomes and disparities in public investment 

to shape those outcomes.

• Develop and implement strategies that identify, prioritize, and effectively 

support the most disadvantaged geographies and populations.
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• Authentically engage residents, organizations, and other community 

stakeholders to inform and determine interventions (e.g., policy and program) 

and investments.

• Seek to improve long-term outcomes both intergenerationally and 

multi-generationally.

• Use data to effectively assess and communicate equity needs and support 

timely assessment of progress. 

• Disaggregate data and analysis within racial/ethnic and other demographic 

subgroup categories.

• Work collaboratively and intentionally across departments and across 

leadership levels and decision-makers.

• Act urgently and boldly to achieve tangible results.

• Align policies, processes, practices to effectively address equity challenges 

throughout the County’s workforce (personnel, contractors, and vendors).

• Intervene early and emphasize long-term prevention.

Additional ARP Budget Equity Principles

• Dedicate ARP funds and resources to programs and services that reduce and 

close race and gender equity gaps, and address root causes and drivers of 

inequity.

• Lead with transparency and accountability during critical stages of the program 

implementation by reporting out program process and seeking community input 

and engagement in delivering services.

• Ensure immigrants of all statuses and system-impacted communities, including 

those with criminal histories, are eligible for any new or existing programs 

funded by ARP.

• Ensure new and existing programs and services are accessible to 

disadvantaged communities without the fear of intimidation or judgment. 

Services must be culturally and linguistically accessible, near transit, available 

in-person/over the phone, during days and hours when working individuals can 

access services and delivered by trusted messengers. 

• When possible, offer opportunities and technical assistance needed to support 

community-based organizations in accessing County funds. Leverage existing 

contracting reform strategies and third-party administrator programs.

• Before the allocation of additional ARP funding, assess the impact of the initial 

round of allocated ARP funding and programs.

• ARP funds and resources should support and uplift the health and wellness 

needs of communities who have experienced historic disinvestment, 
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over-policing, and been affected the most by the pandemic. Funds should not 

be used to advance suppression-based efforts via incarceration and policing.

County departments will also be required to link their project to these principles and 

articulate in their project design how they will promote equitable outcomes that close 

the gaps in economic and racial disparities.

Departments will develop programs with specific targets intended to produce 

meaningful equity results and strategies to achieve those targets as part of their 

program design plans. Applying the Index will help target resources to the geographic 

and hard-to-count communities that need it most. 

Lastly, to address the geographic and demographic distribution of funding and as 

described above, the development of the Equity Tracker and Index will support 

programs to geographically locate the highest, high, and moderately-needed

communities where they should prioritize their program services utilizing the 

percent-resource allocator provided in the Funding Formula. Through this process, 

funding will target the communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and 

with the greatest need for resources to recover from the pandemic. Once the funded 

departments complete this exercise, the County will have a better understanding of 

the specific distribution of funding and demographics targeted. As described, the 

Index and Formula prioritizes the communities most affected by the COVID-19 

pandemic, which includes populations experiencing concentrated poverty and those 

who identify as Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, Black, and Latin.

Community Engagement 

Departments will be expected to submit a community engagement plan as part of their 

program design for their individual projects. Engagement strategies will differ 

depending on the project and target population. A Stakeholder Engagement Toolkit 

will be developed and disseminated to the departments and programs to support the 

development and execution of their community engagement plan. 

Labor Practices 

The County will not be utilizing ARP tranche 1 funds for any infrastructure projects. 

This section does not apply. However, in other categories, the County has some of 

the strongest labor and minimum wage laws in California and is a leader in ensuring 

best practices to protect employees. 

Use of Evidence 

To date, none of the ARP Projects have been implemented as program design is still 

being finalized. Use of Evidence and/or program evaluation will be part of the program 

design. This section will be reported on in the next Performance Report to the 

Treasury due July 31, 2022.
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Table of Expenses by Expenditure Category

Category Cumulative

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

1 Expenditure Category: Public Health

1.1 COVID-19 Vaccination 0 0

1.2 COVID-19 Testing 0 0

1.3 COVID-19 Contact Tracing 0 0

1.4 Prevention in Congregate Settings (Nursing 

Homes, Prisons/Jails, Dense Work Sites, 

Schools, etc.)

0 0

1.5 Personal Protective Equipment 0 0

1.6 Medical Expenses (including Alternative Care 

Facilities)

0 0

1.7 Capital Investments or Physical Plant Changes 

to Public Facilities That Respond to the 

COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

0 0

1.8 Other COVID-19 Public Health Expenses 

(including Communications, Enforcement, 

Isolation/Quarantine)

0 0

1.9 Payroll Costs for Public Health, Safety, and 

Other Public Sector Staff Responding to 

COVID-19

0 0

1.10 Mental Health Services 0 0

1.11 Substance Use Services 0 0

1.12 Other Public Health Services 0 0

2 Expenditure Category: Negative Economic 

Impacts

2.1 Household Assistance: Food Programs 0 0

2.2 Household Assistance: Rent, Mortgage, and 

Utility Aid 

0 0

2.3 Household Assistance: Cash Transfers 0 0

2.4 Household Assistance: Internet Access 

Programs

0 0

2.5 Household Assistance: Eviction Prevention 0 0

2.6 Unemployment Benefits or Cash Assistance to 

Unemployed Workers

0 0

2.7 Job Training Assistance (e.g., Sectoral 

Job-Training, Subsidized Employment, 

Employment Supports or Incentives)

0 0

2.8 Contributions to UI Trust Funds 0 0

2.9 Small Business Economic Assistance (General) 0 0

2.10 Aid to Nonprofit Organizations 0 0

2.11 Aid to Tourism, Travel, or Hospitality 0 0

2.12 Aid to Other Impacted Industries 0 0
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Category Cumulative

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

2.13 Other Economic Support 0 0

2.14 Rehiring Public Sector Staff 0 0

3 Expenditure Category: Services to 

Disproportionately Impacted Communities

3.1 Education Assistance: Early Learning 0 0

3.2 Education Assistance: Aid to High-Poverty 

Districts

0 0

3.3 Education Assistance: Academic Services 0 0

3.4 Education Assistance: Social, Emotional, and 

Mental Health Services 

0 0

3.5 Education Assistance: Other 0 0

3.6 Healthy Childhood Environments: Child Care 0 0

3.7 Healthy Childhood Environments: Home Visiting 0 0

3.8 Healthy Childhood Environments: Services to 

Foster Youth or Families Involved in Child 

Welfare System 

0 0

3.9. Healthy Childhood Environments: Other 0 0

3.10 Housing Support: Affordable Housing 0 0

3.11 Housing Support: Services for Unhoused 

Persons

0 0

3.12 Housing Support: Other Housing Assistance 0 0

3.13 Social Determinants of Health: Other 0 0

3.14 Social Determinants of Health: Community 

Health Workers or Benefits Navigators 

0 0

3.15 Social Determinants of Health: Lead 

Remediation

0 0

3.16 Social Determinants of Health: Community 

Violence Interventions 

0 0

4 Expenditure Category: Premium Pay

4.1 Public Sector Employees 0 0

4.2 Private Sector: Grants to Other Employers 0 0

5 Expenditure Category: Infrastructure

5.1 Clean Water: Centralized wastewater treatment 0 0

5.2 Clean Water: Centralized Wastewater 

Collection And Conveyance

0 0

5.3 Clean Water: Decentralized Wastewater 0 0

5.4 Clean Water: Combined Sewer Overflows 0 0

5.5 Clean Water: Other Sewer Infrastructure 0 0

5.6 Clean Water: Stormwater 0 0

5.7 Clean Water: Energy Conservation 0 0

5.8 Clean Water: Water Conservation 0 0

5.9 Clean Water: Nonpoint Source 0 0
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Category Cumulative

expenditures to 

date ($)

Amount spent 

since last 

Recovery Plan

5.10 Drinking Water: Treatment 0 0

5.11 Drinking Water: Transmission & Distribution 0 0

5.12 Drinking Water: Transmission & Distribution: 

Lead Remediation

0 0

5.13 Drinking Water: Source 0 0

5.14 Drinking Water: Storage 0 0

5.15 Drinking Water: Other Water Infrastructure 0 0

5.16 Broadband: “Last Mile” Projects 0 0

5.17 Broadband: Other Projects 0 0

6 Expenditure Category: Revenue Replacement

6.1 Provision of Government Services 0 0

7 Administrative and Other

7.1 Administrative Expenses 0 0

7.2 Evaluation and Data Analysis 0 0

7.3 Transfers to Other Units of Government 0 0

7.4 Transfers to Non-entitlement Units 

(States and Territories only)

0 0

Project Inventory 

Public Health (EC 1): $0

Negative Economic Impacts (EC 2): $0

Services to Disproportionately Impacted Communities (EC 3): $0

To date, none of the ARP Projects have been implemented as program design is still 

being finalized. Use of Evidence and/or program evaluation will be part of the program 

design. This section will be reported on in the next Performance Report to the 

Treasury due July 31, 2022.

Performance Report

To date, none of the ARP Projects have been implemented as the program design is 

still being finalized. Key indicators for the respective ARP programs are still being 

identified in accordance with Treasury guidance, hence there is no progress, 

challenges, nor opportunities to report for this report. These will be reported on in the 

next Performance Report to the Treasury due July 31, 2022.

Ineligible Activities: Tax Offset Provision (States and territories only)

Item Amount

a. Revenue-reducing Covered Changes $0

This section does not apply.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) recommends the Board of Supervisors approve the proposed 

spending plan for the County’s allocation of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) Coronavirus State 

and Local Government Fiscal Recovery Funds (Fiscal Recovery Funds). 

The spending plan totals $975.0 million across three strategic pillars: (1) $567.9 million for equitybased investments to position the County to recover better than before the pandemic; (2) $239.7 

million to support an equitable and inclusive recovery; and (3) $167.4 million to preserve the 

County’s fiscal stability and shore up our safety net programs. 

Taken together, these proposed investments represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the 

County, led by your Board, to enact transformative changes in the communities that have been 

hardest hit by the pandemic, and set the foundation for all our residents to share in a healthier, more 

equitable future.

The spending plan responds to the COVID-19 public health emergency and its economic impacts 

with substantial and direct investments in hard-hit disadvantaged communities and through 

programs to address entrenched challenges that have only grown worse during the pandemic, 

ranging from homelessness and deeper levels of poverty to the unique needs of immigrants, small 

businesses, justice-involved individuals, and survivors of trauma, including domestic violence and 

hate crimes.

SUBJECT

July 27, 2021

The Honorable Board of Supervisors

County of Los Angeles

383 Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration

500 West Temple Street 

Los Angeles, California 90012

Dear Supervisors:

APPROVAL OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FISCAL RECOVERY FUNDS SPENDING PLAN

(ALL SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICTS)

(3-VOTES)

52-F July 27, 2021
A summary of the proposed spending plan is included as Attachment I and a comprehensive list of 

programs is included as Attachment II, with additional details in the Facts and Provisions/Legal 

Requirements section of this letter. 

This is the first phase of our ARP Fiscal Recovery Funds planning. We anticipate receiving a second 

allocation of approximately $975.0 million in Fiscal Recovery Funds in May 2022 and will return to 

your Board at that time with a proposed spending plan.

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE BOARD:

1. Approve the attached proposed spending plan totaling $975.0 million for the expenditure of federal 

revenue received through a direct allocation pursuant to the ARP.

2. Delegate authority to the CEO, or her designee, to allocate funds from the ARP Act Trust Fund to 

reimburse County departments for expenditures that meet the eligibility criteria issued by the U.S. 

Department of the Treasury (Treasury).

3. Delegate authority to the CEO, or her designee, to recognize lost revenue through the regular 

budget process, and as authorized under the ARP, as needed to provide the government services 

identified in the spending plan. 

4. Delegate authority to the CEO, or her designee, to adjust planned spending among categories 

approved in the spending plan and across fiscal years to maximize the use of the funds and recover 

eligible costs. 

5. Find that the recommended actions, including the approval of the proposed spending plan for the 

expenditure of federal revenue received through the ARP do not constitute a project pursuant to 

section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code and section 15378(b) of the State California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines for the reasons stated in this Board letter and in the 

record of the proposed activities. In the alternative, the recommended actions, including approval of 

the spending plan, are exempt as specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency as 

a result of the declared COVID-19 public health emergency.

PURPOSE/JUSTIFICATION OF RECOMMENDED ACTION

Approval of the spending plan will enable the County to program $975.0 million in a direct federal 

allocation received under the ARP Fiscal Recovery Funds and continue to build upon the $1.22

billion in investments previously authorized by your Board using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, 

Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. This spending plan is designed to enable the County to 

mount a sustained response to the impacts of COVID-19 by supporting individuals, families, 

communities, small businesses, and community-based providers, among others, in the difficult 

journey towards recovery. 

The requested delegated authority will authorize the transfer of funds out of the County's ARP Act 

Trust Fund and allow the allocation of funds for uses approved under the spending plan. The 

allocations will be formalized through subsequent budget actions approved by your Board.

The requested delegated authority will also authorize the CEO to determine the most appropriate 

and eligible categories of ARP funding to ensure the programs, services, and allocations in the 

spending plan are fully funded, including but not limited to using ARP provisions that authorize the 

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County to restore lost revenue for the purpose of providing government services. In addition, the 

delegated authority will authorize the CEO to make transfers between budget units, as well as 

adjustments between budget years and spending plan categories when necessary and appropriate. 

This will provide needed administrative flexibility to maximize newly available State or federal funding 

and re-balance budgeted spending categories in response to real-time conditions. Finally, the 

requested authority will allow the CEO to allocate public health emergency funding included in the 

spending plan, as needed, to support the public health response to critical and emerging pandemic 

needs.

Implementation of Strategic Plan Goals

Adoption of the spending plan and the related recommendations supports all three goals of the 

County’s Strategic Plan: Goal I – Make Investments that Transform Lives, Goal II – Foster Vibrant 

and Resilient Communities, and Goal III – Realize Tomorrow’s Government Today. The spending 

plan focuses resources on some of the County’s most challenging and complex issues, including but 

not limited to areas where health and economic conditions contributed to poor public health 

consequences during the pandemic. The proposed investments will be deployed using an equity tool 

and are brimming with the potential to positively impact the lives of those who rely on us, and to 

strengthen communities throughout the County - one community investment at a time. Finally, the 

proposed spending plan includes investments to support the County’s infrastructure and to better 

position the County to address future challenges. 

FISCAL IMPACT/FINANCING

Approval of the proposed $975.0 million spending plan would pay for a wide range of services and 

programs to support the County’s pandemic recovery, including $567.9 million for equity-focused 

programs, $239.7 million to support an equitable and inclusive recovery, and $167.4 million to 

ensure the County’s fiscal stability and sustain vital safety net programs. 

The spending plan includes $65.0 million to pay costs associated with CEO-approved County 

disaster services worker programs and other COVID-19-related costs, as well as $4.2 million to pay 

for mandated auditing and reporting, developing an equity tool, securing data visualization services, 

and launching a website that will enable the CEO to broadly share information related to how funds 

are deployed, by whom, and program outcomes. 

The County must spend the ARP Fiscal Recovery Funds in strict compliance with federal law. The 

CEO, Auditor-Controller, County Counsel, and other departments are working closely to ensure 

appropriate fiscal oversight, accountability, auditing, and reporting of these funds. We do not 

anticipate any impact to the County General Fund. 

FACTS AND PROVISIONS/LEGAL REQUIREMENTS

The ARP, effective March 11, 2021, is a comprehensive federal funding package adopted in 

response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among many other provisions, the ARP provides $350.0

billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds to support states, territories, counties, cities, and tribal governments, 

with $65.1 billion dedicated specifically to counties. (See sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security 

Act as added by section 9901 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.) The Los Angeles County 

region anticipates receiving approximately $4.6 billion in Fiscal Recovery Funds, with the County 

expected to receive about $1.95 billion, and each city within the County receiving its own share of 

the remaining $2.65 billion. A table showing the County’s and each city’s estimated allocation is 

included as Attachment III.

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The federal government will provide the Fiscal Recovery Funds in two equal payments. We received 

the first payment of approximately $975.0 million, in May 2021 and placed the funds into the newly 

created ARP Act Trust Fund. We anticipate receiving the second payment, also approximately 

$975.0 million, in May 2022. 

The Fiscal Recovery Funds may be used for the following: 

1. To respond to the public health emergency or its negative economic impacts, including 

assistance to households, small businesses, and nonprofits, or aid to impacted industries such as 

tourism, travel, and hospitality;

2. To respond to workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency 

by providing premium pay to eligible workers;

3. To provide government services to the extent of the reduction in revenue due to the COVID–19

public health emergency relative to revenues collected in the most recent full fiscal year prior to the 

emergency; and

4. To make necessary investments in water, sewer, or broadband infrastructure.

The U.S. Treasury provides guidance on the eligible and restricted usage of the Fiscal Recovery 

Funds through the Interim Final Rule (31 CFR Part 35), Treasury Compliance and Reporting 

Guidance, and Frequently Asked Questions. 

SPENDING PLAN OVERVIEW

If approved, this spending plan will program the full $975.0 million in Fiscal Recovery Funds received 

to date. The plan distributes funding across three strategic pillars. Detailed information regarding 

each pillar is included below. 

FIRST PILLAR: EMERGING FROM THE PANDEMIC BETTER THAN BEFORE THROUGH 

EQUITY-BASED INVESTMENTS

The first strategic pillar includes $567.9 million to ensure the County emerges from the pandemic 

better than before through equity-based programs. 

This pillar recognizes that the Fiscal Recovery Funds represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity 

to address the County’s most acute and impactful inequities and proposes investments to address 

the social determinants which contributed to poor public health outcomes during the pandemic. 

These investments include housing for people experiencing homelessness including through 

partnerships with cities ($400.0 million), creation of more affordable housing ($40.0 million), 

bolstering the Board’s “Care First, Jails Last” vision ($47.1 million), reducing the digital divide ($12.0

million), and disrupting the cycle of poverty in communities that have historically been left out of 

intergenerational wealth gains ($19.8 million). 

In addition to other County investments in community-based support, including Care First and 

Community Investments (also known as Measure J investments), this pillar also provides direct 

grants to community-based organizations providing trauma prevention and violence disruption 

services ($20.0 million); food and nutritional support, including formula and essential baby supplies 

($8.0 million); capacity building for justice-focused organizations ($5.0 million) and immigrantThe Honorable Board of Supervisors

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focused organizations ($3.5 million); youth workforce development ($3.5 million); wealth-building in 

low-income and immigrant communities ($3.5 million); financial support to microbusinesses in the 

street and sidewalk vending market ($3.5 million); and legal representation for immigrants at risk of 

removal ($2.0 million). 

SECOND PILLAR: BUILDING A BRIDGE TO AN EQUITABLE RECOVERY

County residents in low-income communities and communities of color have borne the brunt of the 

pandemic’s negative impacts. This second pillar recognizes the need to deploy supportive services 

through an equity lens to jumpstart recovery for those who have suffered the most and are resourced 

the least.

This pillar invests $239.7 million to provide financial and other services and programs to small 

businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits ($70.5 million); support for artists and professionals and 

organizations in the creative economy ($21.25 million); create employment opportunities for workers 

and youth ($37 million); protect tenants from eviction and homeowners from foreclosure ($18.5

million); fund essential childcare, recreational, early education, and home visiting programs for 

families ($49.13 million); further address trauma and violence ($10.7 million); and provide additional 

food and nutritional resources ($32.6 million). 

THIRD PILLAR: FISCAL STABILITY AND SOCIAL SAFETY NET

Throughout the pandemic, the County not only sustained but expanded its safety net programs to 

meet critical public health, economic, and social needs of our community, despite drastic revenue 

reductions and implementing approximately $370.0 million in departmental curtailments last fiscal 

year. The third pillar recognizes the need to ensure the County’s system of support to residents – 

the “safety net” – is on firm financial footing as we emerge from the pandemic.

This pillar proposes $167.4 million to shore up the County’s disaster services worker program ($65.0

million), and expand the County Fire District’s Advanced Provider Response Units, which pairs a 

nurse practitioner with a firefighter paramedic deployed to primarily under-resourced areas to reduce 

unnecessary ambulance transports and emergency room visits ($8.1 million). 

The pillar also complements other available funding by setting aside $17.6 million for ethnic and 

hyperlocal media and community-based outreach such as the community health worker and 

promotores programs; backstops a sustained public health response to the COVID-19 emergency 

($22.5 million); establishes $50.0 million for eligible capital costs for infrastructure that may be 

needed to meet the County’s most serious public health challenges; and ensures funding for 

mandated audits and reporting, among other administrative costs ($4.2 million). 

IMPACT OF AVAILABILITY OF OTHER FUNDING ON PROPOSED SPENDING PLAN

As we developed this proposed spending plan, we carefully considered other available funding and 

designed the spending plan to leverage and/or complement those funding sources.

We worked closely with partner departments, such as the Departments of Public Health (DPH) and 

Health Services and the Los Angeles County Development Authority, to identify and understand 

when the County will receive other federal and State funds available to support components of this 

spending plan. In order to stretch every federal and State dollar across all three pillars of this plan, 

we recommend funding amounts in this plan while seeking to leverage other additional funding 

intended for the same investment area. This plan’s recommended investments in the public health 

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response and our approach to rent relief are examples. 

In addition to the Fiscal Recovery Funds under ARP, the ARP provides additional, substantial 

funding to support vaccine distribution, testing and contact tracing, public health workforce, and 

emergency rental assistance, to name a few. For the public health response, the ARP includes 

$14.0 billion to support vaccine distribution and administration across the country and $7.5 billion for 

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for vaccines─vaccines which will largely be 

used to support state and local public health departments, including DPH. DPH also receives 

funding from the CDC through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity grant that supports some 

of the County’s core public health responsibilities, such as contact tracing, outbreak management, 

health officer order enforcement, vaccine operations and community testing. Finally, the federal 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, also provided substantial funding to support pandemic 

response and recovery. We took these factors into consideration when determining the proposed 

funding allocation for the public health response. 

Similarly, more than $630.0 million in emergency rent assistance is available for County residents 

through separate ARP funding and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. We also took this into 

consideration when determining the recommended approach to protecting tenants in this spending 

plan. 

Finally, the County continues to leverage disaster relief funding reimbursement through the Federal 

Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). However, FEMA has already terminated support for some 

programs and other programs are scheduled to sunset in September 2021. 

ENSURING EQUITY

On April 20, 2021, and again on July 13, 2021, your Board directed the CEO and County 

departments to employ an equity lens to deploy pandemic recovery funding and services. The CEO, 

through its Anti-racism, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative and in consultation with the Advancement 

Project, other community stakeholders, and County departments and agencies, is establishing 

foundational principles and an equity formula to guide each department’s program planning to 

increase the likelihood that these objectives will be achieved. Pursuant to the Board’s directives, 

outcomes and standardized equity metrics will be reported on a public-facing website that will be 

developed as program implementation commences. 

STATUS OF CARES ACT CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FUNDS (CRF) 

As mentioned above, the County received approximately $1.22 billion in CARES Act CRF through 

federal and State allocations and the Board approved the first CRF spending plan on July 21, 2020. 

The County used CRF to fund a wide variety of programs in direct response to the pandemic, 

including food relief, small business and restaurant grants, testing, contact tracing and public health 

surveillance, rent relief, childcare, and other supports. The Board amended the CRF spending plan 

twice to allocate available funding, and on May 4, 2021, the Board approved a final amended plan to 

allocate approximately $102.1 million in available remaining CRF to pay for pandemic response 

costs incurred by the County and to bridge critical pandemic response programming until the County 

received its Fiscal Recovery Funds. The County’s CRF is fully allocated and we expect it will be fully 

expended in the coming weeks. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION

The recommended actions, including approval for the proposed spending plan and proposed 

delegations, do not constitute a project under CEQA because they are activities that are excluded 

from the definition of a project by section 21065 of the California Public Resources Code and section 

15378(b)(4) and (5) of the State CEQA Guidelines. The actions proposed are organizational or 

administrative activities of government which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes to 

the environment. Additionally, the actions involve the creation of a government funding mechanism 

that does not involve a commitment to a specific project that may result in a potentially significant 

impact on the environment. 

In the alternative, approval of the recommended actions is statutorily exempt from CEQA under 

section 21080(b)(4) of the Public Resources Code and section 15269(c) as specific actions to 

prevent or mitigate an emergency due to the declared COVID-19 public health emergency.

IMPACT ON CURRENT SERVICES (OR PROJECTS)

The uses proposed by the spending plan are all specifically related to the County’s COVID-19

response and recovery, and in that regard the services are new or modified to be specifically 

responsive to COVID-19. Timely expenditure of the ARP Fiscal Recovery Funds will depend in part 

on the County’s ability to quickly standup delivery models, partner with community-based 

organizations, and leverage existing infrastructure to deliver new COVID-19-related services. Service 

levels for certain pre-COVID-19 County services may be impacted where the staff normally providing 

those services have been redeployed as disaster services workers or otherwise diverted to 

pandemic response and recovery programming. Service levels may also be impacted by the need to 

deploy even more County staff to support some of the new programs and services contemplated by 

the spending plan. 

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FESIA A. DAVENPORT

Chief Executive Officer

Enclosures

c: Executive Office, Board of Supervisors

County Counsel

Auditor-Controller

Respectfully submitted,

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LA County Phase One American Rescue Plan 2021

American Rescue Plan Summary

OVERVIEW: Phase one of Los Angeles County’s American Rescue Plan will invest an unprecedented

$975 million in federal recovery funds to reshape and rebuild Los Angeles County as it emerges from a

devastating pandemic.

The plan invests heavily—and directly—in hard-hit disadvantaged communities and advances innovative,

equity-focused programs to address entrenched challenges ranging from homelessness and poverty to the

unique needs of immigrants, small businesses, justice-involved individuals, and survivors of trauma, including

domestic violence and hate crimes.

The funding in this plan represents the first phase of a $1.9 billion allocation under the American Rescue Plan

(ARP), with the remaining funding to be provided to the County in 2022.

This first phase is focused on programs to benefit our residents, businesses, and communities—and does not

include any allocations to backfill the County’s revenue losses, which will be addressed in the next phase.

The plan is based on three strategic pillars, which create the foundation for a “Better Than Before”

recovery in Los Angeles County.

STRATEGIC PILLAR 1

Equity-Focused

Investments

Allocation: Addressing longstanding inequities

in hard-hit and historically

disadvantaged communities through

urgent, transformative, and

innovative investments.

STRATEGIC PILLAR 2

Building A Bridge to an

Equitable Recovery

Allocation: Deploying supportive services

through an equity lens to jumpstart

recovery in communities that have

experienced the most severe

impacts of COVID-19.

STRATEGIC PILLAR 3

Fiscal Stability and

Social Safety Net

Allocation: Sustaining and expanding key

programs to ensure a strong safety

net as we emerge from the

pandemic.

More than $468 million for housing and related services for people experiencing homelessness, for services to

prevent people falling into homelessness, and for development of affordable housing.

More than $290 million in direct community investments and partnerships with community-based organizations.

More than $89 million to expand the system of care and reduce reliance on incarceration; support justice-focused

community organizations; create jobs for justice-involved individuals; and address trauma and violence in

communities. This ARP funding includes $47.1 million for Care First, Jails Last programs, which will augment $100

million in additional County funding for Care First and Community Investments (formerly Measure J.)

$12.5 million to support immigrants and immigrant-focused community-based organizations that provide a broad

range of services, including legal representation, wealth-building assistance and organizational capacity building—in

addition to a broad range of other ARP-funded assistance, from nutrition to childcare to health outreach, intended to

benefit immigrant and other high-need communities.

$70 million for small businesses, entrepreneurs, and nonprofits hit hard by the pandemic.

Highlights include:

$567.90 Million $239.68 Million $167.42 Million

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FIRST PILLAR

EMERGING FROM THE PANDEMIC BETTER THAN BEFORE THROUGH EQUITY-BASED INVESTMENTS

$567.9 million

The American Rescue Plan represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address LA County’s most urgent inequities. This first

pillar, “Emerging from the Pandemic Better than Before through Equity-Based Investments,” makes investments that will increase

housing for people experiencing homelessness, create more affordable housing, resource the Board’s “Care First, Jails Last” vision,

reduce the digital divide, and build wealth in communities that have historically been left out of generational wealth gains.

LA County Phase One American Rescue Plan 2021

Project Homekey 2.0 Through the State’s Project Homekey program, create new

interim and permanent supportive housing for individuals and

families with complex health or behavioral health conditions

who are experiencing homelessness by acquiring new hotels,

motels, and apartment complexes.

Program Description

$115.0

Allocation ($Millions)

AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN – PHASE ONE SPENDING PLAN

– $975.0 Million –

1.1 Housing for People Experiencing Homelessness - $400.0 million

Seize the moment to address LA County’s urgent humanitarian crisis by creating or sustaining thousands of units of

interim and permanent supportive housing and offering essential housing services for people experiencing

homelessness.

Conversion of Interim

Housing Units to

Permanent Housing

Fund the conversion of existing interim housing units owned

by LA County into permanent housing units, including

permanent supportive housing, to support the countywide

permanent housing shortfall.

$113.2

Permanent Supportive

and Interim Housing

Create permanent supportive and interim housing for

individuals and families with complex health or behavioral

health conditions who are experiencing homelessness by

constructing new modular, prefabricated, or container

housing on LA County-owned or city-owned or leased

property, and by the strategic renovation of existing LA

County facilities.

$100.0

Rental Subsidies for

Permanent Supportive

Housing

Create permanent supportive housing for individuals and

families with complex health or behavioral health conditions

who are experiencing homelessness by providing rental

subsidies that can be used in the private rental market, for

master leasing, and for project-based sites without rental

subsidies, among other options, without any upfront capital

costs.

$30.0

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Intensive Case

Management Services

(ICMS) and Tenancy

Support Services for

Federal Voucher Holders

Provide Intensive Case Management Services (ICMS) and

move-in assistance for approximately 1,500 federal subsidy

recipients who are coming out of homelessness and matched

to a permanent housing opportunity.

Program Description

$16.7

Allocation

Homelessness Prevention Support the Department of Health Services’ (DHS) Housing for

Health Homelessness Prevention Unit, a proactive,

collaborative, data-driven effort to identify people in LA

County who are at-risk of losing their housing and provide

them with support services and flexible cash assistance to

address an array of needs, including rent and utility arrears,

and connection to mainstream services and benefits.

$13.75

Interim Housing

Operating Costs for

Community-Based Sites

Support the operation of 261 interim housing beds in 10

different sites located throughout LA County, including at

three new Recuperative Care Centers opened on DHS hospital

campuses in response to COVID-19.

$6.0

Interim Housing

Operating Costs for Safe

Landing Site

Support the Safe Landing Program, which provides interim

supportive housing to people experiencing homelessness

who can be diverted from jail or from the emergency room,

including 24/7 admissions and onsite health and mental

health clinical assessment and care.

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Safe Parking Establish five 20-space Safe Parking Program sites, one in

each Supervisorial District, that would operate from January

2022 to December 2024 (24-months).

$1.1

$400.0

1.2 Reduce the Affordable Housing Shortfall - $40.0 million

Reduce the Countywide affordable housing shortfall by investing in private affordable housing developments.

Funding New Private

Sector Affordable Housing

Development

Supplement the annual Notice of Funding Availability,

administered by the Los Angeles County Development

Authority (LACDA), with additional funds to support more

affordable housing developments in LA County.

Program Description

$40.0

$40.0

Allocation

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1.3 Care First, Jails Last - $47.1 million

As a complement to Board-driven efforts to reverse the trajectory of a jails-first approach, including the Alternatives to

Incarceration Initiative and Care First and Community Investments (formerly Measure J), expand the system of care,

support decarceration, and provide community-based diversion, treatment, and reentry as an alternative to jails.

Alternative Crisis

Response

Jumpstart the Alternative Crisis Response, a multiagency effort

led by mental health professionals and first responders to

promote the appropriate care and treatment of people in

crisis as a primary alternative to a law enforcement response

or jail.

Program Description

$18.5

System of Care Expansion Expand the LA County’s community-based system of care for

people experiencing serious mental illness and substance use

disorder by facilitating service providers’ capabilities and

capacity.

$10.5

Job Programs for Reentry

Populations

Provide a variety of job placement programming for

individuals returning from serving sentences in jail or prison,

with a focus on women and the LGBTQI+ community,

including the Careers for a Cause, Skills and Experience for

the Careers of Tomorrow (SECTOR), and Fire Camp programs.

$8.6

ODR Interim Housing

Beds

Extend funding for the Office of Diversion and Reentry’s (ODR)

"Covid19 Jail Release," which are interim housing beds to

provide housing for people who are experiencing

homelessness and have severe mental illness and physical

health issues who were released during pandemic-caused jail

decompression.

$5.0

Mapping Resources for

Justice-Involved

Populations

Develop a resource map of service networks for justiceinvolved individuals to identify assets and deficits that will

inform the development of programs and services and raise

awareness of the existence of these programs and services

for this population.

$1.5

Bed Availability Navigator

System

Develop a mobile application (app) for first responders and

system navigators that will conduct a needs-assessment,

identify the nearest available appropriate facility, and

facilitate the person’s transport and intake.

$1.5

Arts for Justice-Involved

Youth

Support arts community-based organizations to provide arts

for justice-involved youth in LA County detention and in

justice- and system-impacted communities as a prevention

measure, and fund organizations whose programs are

deployed through a justice lens.

$1.5

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1.4 Digital Divide - $12.0 million

Attack the Digital Divide so that all LA County residents can enjoy educational and economic opportunities and prosperity.

Library Laptop and

Hotspot Lending and

WorkReady Programs

Add 1,400 Chromebook kits to the LA County Library's existing

Laptop & Hotspot Loan program and fund necessary

equipment, software, and licenses, with a focus on lowincome communities and communities of color with limited

access to broadband internet and devices.

Program Description

$3.4

Delete the Divide Initiative Led by the Internal Services Department (ISD) and through an

innovative public-private partnership model, Delete the Divide

seeks to unify efforts to provide youth in disadvantaged

communities with direct access to modern technologies, as

well as, training and support services, educational programs,

technical certifications, job shadowing, mentoring, corporate

tours, paid work experience, academic scholarships, practical

hands-on experience, and pathways to well-paying careers.

$2.9

LA Community Impact

Hubs

In partnership with the Greater LA Education Foundation, the

Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) , private

sector partners and nonprofits, support Teen Tech Centers as

after-school spaces equipped with cutting-edge technology

and staffed by youth development professionals who provide

a safe, supporting learning environment.

$2.0

Public Wi-Fi at LA County

Parks

Install public Wi-Fi at 36 LA County parks that serve

communities hardest hit by the pandemic and with the lowest

rates of home broadband access.

$1.5

LA County Library “Park

and Connect” Program

Expand the Library’s “Park and Connect” program by installing

outdoor Wi-Fi antennas at 55 LA County libraries, which will

offer public internet access in the library parking lots and

adjacent public spaces.

$1.5

$12.0

Building a Better

Connection for Older

Adults

Through a partnership with theDepartment of Workforce

Development, Aging and Community Services (WDACS ) and

the Aging Network, the program will provide a tablet

computer designed for use by older adults, along with internet

connection, technical assistance, and ongoing support.

$0.7

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Volunteer Income Tax

Assistance (VITA) for

People Experiencing

Homelessness

Work with homeless services providers to increase tax filings

for homeless and formerly homeless individuals and families,

prioritizing meeting the deadline for non-filers to receive

federal and state stimulus checks.

$2.3

Financial Coaching

Partnerships

Establish a network of financial ambassadors to provide

financial coaching and debt avoidance services for LA County

residents impacted by COVID-19.

$1.2

Trauma Prevention

Partnerships

Grants to community-based organizations to support crisis

response, violence disruption, and gang prevention and

intervention.

$20.0

Community Food

Resource Grants

Grants to community organizations producing, distributing, or

promoting culturally relevant food and services, including

baby formula and essential supplies like diapers, to families

who are unable to access or fully utilize sufficient food from

other programs.

$8.0

$19.8

Program Description

1.6 Direct Community Investments - $49.0 million

As a complement to other LA County efforts to fund community-based support and recovery, including Care First and

Community Investment (formerly Measure J), work with a third-party administrator(s) to resource community-based

organizations that provide pandemic recovery services related to justice-involved populations, healthy communities, and

economic and workforce development.

1.5 Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty - $19.8 million

Disrupt the cycle of poverty by building intergenerational wealth in communities with historically limited economic

opportunities and relatively poor health and educational outcomes.

Guaranteed Basic Income Launch a Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program to improve

the financial stability of populations most impacted by COVID

by reducing destabilizing and catastrophic income volatility.

Program Description

$16.3

Capacity-Building Grants

for Justice-Focused

Community-Based

Organizations

Grants to justice-focused community-based organizations to

support strategic planning and assessment of post-pandemic

programmatic operations, as well as strengthening fiscal,

development, and fundraising capacity.

$5.0

Allocation

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Capacity Building for

Immigrant-Focused CBOs

Grants to immigrant-focused community-based organizations

to grow post-pandemic programmatic, fiscal, and fundraising

capacity.

$3.5

Street Vending

Collaborative for Health,

Safety, and Economic

Mobility

In partnership with community-based organizations that work

closely with sidewalk vendors, launch a linguistically

competent and culturally affirming campaign to educate

vendors about public health and other regulatory standards,

including safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19,

and connect vendors with financial support necessary to

obtain code-compliant carts and equipment.

$3.5

Legal Representation for

Immigrants at Risk of

Removal

To help stabilize the cultural and economic fabric of immigrant

communities, support nonprofit legal services providers and

community-based organizations that ensure due process to

immigrants at risk of removal.

$2.0

$49.0

Grants to Support Youth

Workforce Development

Grants to organizations focused on creating jobs and career

pathways for youth through direct grants, with a focus on

youth in communities with disparate health and educational

outcomes.

$3.5

Grants to CommunityBased Organizations

Focused on Financial

Wellbeing and Wealth

Building in Low-Income

and Immigrant

Communities

Grants to community-based organizations and community

development financial institutions that serve LA County’s lowincome communities of color, with a focus on

intergenerational wealth-building, financial coaching, and

homeownership.

$3.5

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LA Regional COVID Fund:

Nonprofit Grants

Expand upon the success of the LA Regional COVID Fund by

providing additional grant opportunities to nonprofits that

provide safety net services in communities hardest hit by the

pandemic.

$15.0

Economic Mobility

Initiative

In partnership with community development financial

institutions and community-based organizations, target

investment in communities with high proportions of

disadvantaged businesses and close the gender gap in

entrepreneurship to reduce poverty, create jobs, and spur

growth and innovation, including but not limited to the

creation of an entrepreneurship academy, mentorship,

technical assistance, capacity building, revolving loan funds,

recovery navigators, and other critical supports.

$15.0

2.1 Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs, and Nonprofits - $70.5 million

Stabilize small businesses and entrepreneurs who are the cultural and economic engines of LA County, with a focus on

investments in small businesses and entrepreneurs who have been excluded from past opportunities due to institutional

racism, redlining, and language and cultural barriers; and support nonprofits that extend LA County’s critical safety net

infrastructure and played an outsized role in LA County’s COVID-19 response.

LA Regional COVID Fund:

Small and Microbusiness

Grants

Expand upon the success of the LA Regional COVID Fund by

providing additional grant opportunities to small businesses

and microentrepreneurs, including veteran-owned businesses

and disadvantaged businesses.

Program Description

$20.0

SECOND PILLAR

BUILDING A BRIDGE TO AN EQUITABLE RECOVERY

$239.68 million

The pandemic has caused untold harms in our County, but those living in low-income communities, communities of color, and places

with relatively poor social determinants of health have borne the brunt. This second pillar, “Building a Bridge to an Equitable Recovery,”

recognizes the need to deploy supportive services through an equity lens to jumpstart recovery for those who have suffered the most.

Keep LA Dining Extend and expand LACDA’s existing restaurant grant

program, with a focus on equitable distribution of funding to

preserve businesses in communities that lack access to

traditional forms of capital.

$10.0

Small Business Rent Relief Support small businesses (and their landlords) in

unincorporated areas who are struggling to pay rent due to

COVID-19.

$7.5

Allocation

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2.2 Arts and the Creative Economy - $21.25 million

Address the impacts of the pandemic on the arts and the creative economy, one of the most economically significant

and hardest-hit sectors, while leveraging the unique capacity of arts and culture to catalyze our region’s economic

recovery, civic connectivity, and community wellbeing.

Arts Relief and Recovery

Grants to Nonprofits and

Individuals

An arts recovery grant fund to support nonprofit arts

organizations and social service/social justice organizations

that engage the arts to meet the needs of their oftenvulnerable constituents to support recovery due to COVID-19

related closures, interruptions, losses, and new health

protocols.

Program Description

$12.0

Creative Works Jobs for

Artists

Engage artists, intermediaries, and cultural organizations to

develop artist-led projects and public programs.

$5.0

Legal Aid for Small

Business Owners

In partnership with nonprofit legal services providers, offer

legal advice and landlord-tenant support for income-qualified

small businesses.

$1.5

"Shop Local” Campaigns Partner with local chambers of commerce on hyperlocal

campaigns to encourage consumers to return to vital small

business corridors, with emphasis on the unincorporated

areas.

$1.0

Safer at Work Extend and expand the Safer at Work campaign, a public

education campaign to improve compliance with public health

orders, and the PPE for Small Business Program, which

provides much needed personal protective equipment to

micro and small enterprises.

$0.5

$70.5

Reopening Culture, $1.9

Tourism, and Marketing

Initiative

Partner with the cultural community, as well as LA Tourism, Metro,

and other agencies, on a communications outreach campaign to

increase information, marketing, and promotion of arts and

cultural activities in the LA County region. This effort would also

provide funding and other marketing support to diverse arts

organizations and ethnic media; strengthen digital and

communications infrastructure and assets used to promote arts

and culture in a regional campaign to boost reopening and to

support the recovery of the arts and creative economy.

Program Description Allocation

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2.3 Employment Opportunities for Workers and Youth - $37.0 million

Create opportunities for under-skilled and hard-to-employ workers to secure employment in the post-pandemic

economy, with an emphasis on workforce development opportunities for LA County’s youth.

Pandemic Recovery Rapid

Reemployment

In partnership with community-based organizations, labor,

and educational partners, support individuals and businesses

in the economic recovery through immediate, rapid

re-employment, targeting recovery-focused industries.

Program Description

$20.0

High Road Training

Partnerships

Expand and build new pre-apprenticeships and

apprenticeships in the areas of health care, advanced

manufacturing, construction, film and digital media, early

childhood education and early care, social/human services,

transportation and warehousing, bioscience, and information

technology.

$9.0

Youth@Work Increase capacity for the Youth@Work program, which offers

youth in priority populations, including but not limited to foster,

probation, and LGBTQI+ youth, paid enrichment training, and

work experience in public, non-profit, and private organizations in

high-growth industry sectors.

$5.0

Creative Career Pathways

for Youth

Funding for programs at LA County Parks’ Innovation Labs

that prepare youth for careers in arts and media, so that

youth who have historically experienced barriers to accessing

these careers are job-ready as the economy recovers and

stabilizes.

Arts Education Program

for Vulnerable LA County

Schools

Support innovative programs offered by the Los Angeles

County Museum of Art (LACMA) in partnership with schools,

public libraries, community centers and artists, including

Creative Classrooms, Communities Create LA!, Mobile Arts, K12 Free Transportation, Evenings for Educators, and Teaching

Artist Training

$0.75

$21.25

$1.6

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2.4 Stable Housing - $18.5 million

Complement substantial existing federal and state rental relief and homeowner resources with hyperlocal financial

support and outreach to ensure those most at risk of eviction and disruptive displacement remain in their homes.

Stay Housed LA County Expand and sustain Stay Housed LA County, a first-of-its-kind

partnership between LA County, community-based

organizations, and nonprofit legal services providers to

provide outreach, education, full-scope legal representation,

and emergency rental assistance to low-income residents

facing eviction.

Program Description

$12.0

LA County Mortgage Relief

Partnership

As a complement to state and federal mortgage relief, offer

United States Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD)-certified foreclosure prevention

counseling and mortgage relief to property owners of 1-4

units and financial assistance for residents in areas of

naturally occurring affordable housing, with a high risk of

displacement and gentrification.

$5.0

Landlord-Tenant

Mediations

Through a partnership led by WDACS with the Department of Consumer

and Business Affairs (DCBA), city agencies, and community-based

organizations, provide additional funding and capacity to help landlords

and tenants arrive at mutually agreeable outcomes to avoid disruptive

displacements resulting from pandemic-related economic hardships.

$1.0

Tenant Protections

Hotline and Small Claims

Advisor Program

Provide additional funding for DCBA’s Tenant Protections

Hotline and its Small Claims Advisor program as they field

inquiries from tenants and landlords seeking to understand

their rights and responsibilities, as well as the required judicial

process under new state laws for unpaid rent during the

pandemic.

$0.5

$18.5

Fair Chance Campaign Provide funding for the existing Fair Chance Campaign to

increase employment of justice-involved individuals, while

also providing incentives to employers.

$2.0

Wraparound Services for

Critical Employment

Initiatives

Support rapid re-employment and high-road training

partnerships by offering wraparound supports while in

training, including stipends, childcare, mentoring, support with

housing, help with technology barriers, and other case

management.

$1.0

$37.0

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2.5 Healthy Families - $49.13 million

Support LA County families by funding our network of childcare providers, creating healthy childhood environments,

and providing families with needed support to thrive post-pandemic.

Childcare Providers

Grants and Incubator

Program

Expand the existing Child Care Provider Grant program

offered by LACDA and establish a training institute to provide

entrepreneurial and industry-specific training for individuals

who want to launch childcare provider businesses, and

support individuals to hire qualified employees. Institute

graduates would receive startup grant funding for their

businesses.

Program Description

$20.0

Home Visiting Services Through the Department of Public Health’s (DPH) Maternal,

Child, and Adolescent Health Programs, provide supportive

home-based visitation services to high-risk, low-income

pregnant and parenting families, including perinatal and

parental support, education, and empowerment; regular

screenings and assessments for mental health symptoms and

early child developmental delays; as well as referrals and

linkages to community and government services.

$9.2

Recreation and Aquatics

at LA County Parks

Address the devastating impacts of COVID-19 and provide muchneeded healing and community connection through youth

recreational and aquatics programming at LA County parks in

areas most impacted by the pandemic.

$8.8

Healthy Food Kickstarter

Program

Provide grants and technical assistance to entrepreneurs

seeking to establish healthy food outlets in low-income

communities and communities of color to support the longterm resiliency of the healthy food supply chain in those

communities.

$5.0

Nurse Family Partnership Supplement funding for DPH’s Nurse-Family Partnership Program,

which provides regular visits by specially trained nurses for young,

first-time mothers and mothers-to-be in foster care starting in

early pregnancy and continuing through the child's second

birthday.

$2.7

Market Match Provide grants to Market Match or similar healthy food

incentive programs to subsidize the purchase of healthy food

among low-income families, reducing the effect of economic

pressure to purchase unhealthy food.

$2.0

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LA County Library Early

Literacy and Education

Support LA County Library early literacy and educational

programs, including the LA County Library’s Student and

Tutors Reading Achieving Success (STARS), the Reading

Machine program, the LA County Library MakMo, and the

School Readiness Program

Program Description

$1.43

$49.13

2.6 Addressing Trauma and Violence - $10.7 million

Address the devastating impacts of violence and trauma, which have been exacerbated by the economic and isolating

effects of the pandemic.

Domestic Violence

Shelter-Based Program

Provide supplemental funding to 18 contracted agencies to

provide 24-hour shelter, food, clothing, basic needs, case

management and counseling to survivors of domestic

violence.

Program Description

$8.0

Small Dollar Loans and

Grants for Domestic

Violence Survivors

Provide survivors of domestic violence with small-dollar grants

and interest-free loans to pay for relocation expenses, medical

bills, and other costs necessary to secure financial

independence.

$1.4

Increase Capacity to

Address PandemicRelated Hate

Led by WDACS’s Human Relations Commission, fund efforts to

address and end hate, bias, and discrimination, with a focus on

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiian and

Pacific Islander (AAPI/NHPI) communities subjected to increased

hate-based violence as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

$1.0

Domestic Violence Experts

for DCFS Hotline

Co-locate domestic violence experts at the Department of

Children and Family Services (DCFS) Hotline to educate hotline

operators about the nuances of working with sufferers of

domestic violence and assist hotline operators screen callers

in real time.

$0.3

$10.7

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2.7 Food Resources - $32.6 million

Provide for the basic needs of individuals, families, and older adults so they can focus on their personal pandemic

recovery journeys.

Elder Nutrition Program+ Additional support for WDACS’ Elder Nutrition Program+,

which provides free nutritious meals to low-income seniors,

operated in partnership with community-based and nonprofit

organizations.

Program Description

$17.3

Grocery Voucher Program Through an existing public-private partnership involving over 40

community-based organizations, provide grocery gift cards (either

physical or online app) to low-income individuals and families who do

not qualify for CalFresh or other long-term food support programs.

$10.0

Food for People

Experiencing

Homelessness

Continue the existing program, administered by DHS in

partnership with LAHSA, the Department of Mental Health

(DMH), and nonprofit service providers, to distribute bagged

meals to people experiencing homelessness using homeless

outreach workers to reduce potential for COVID spread.

$4.8

Food Assistance

Awareness Campaign

Extend an existing LA County communications program to

implement paid media campaigns and increase public

awareness of sustainable food assistance programs.

$0.5

$32.6

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3.1 Shoring Up LA County’s Safety Net - $77.32 million

Shore up LA County’s safety net by funding critical pandemic-related services.

THIRD PILLAR

FISCAL STABILITY AND SOCIAL SAFETY NET

$167.42 million

Throughout the pandemic, LA County not only sustained but expanded its safety net programs to meet critical public health,

economic, and social needs of our community, despite drastic revenue reductions and departmental curtailments. The third pillar,

“Fiscal Stability and Social Safety Net,” recognizes the need to ensure LA County’s infrastructure of last resort – the “safety net” – 

is on firm financial footing as we emerge from the pandemic.

Disaster Services Workers

and Pandemic-Related

Costs

Fund LA County’s ongoing disaster services worker program,

which provides essential services, from support for people

experiencing homelessness, to food distribution, to the

distribution of personal protective equipment and other

critical supplies, and pay for COVID-19-related costs incurred

by departments to meet public health mandates.

Program Description

$65.0

Advanced Provider

Response Units (APRU)

Expand funding for the Fire District’s APRU program, which

partners a nurse practitioner with a firefighter paramedic on a

specialty response unit that targets low-acuity patients,

primarily in underserved areas, in an effort to treat patients in

place and reduce unnecessary ambulance transports and

Emergency Room visits.

$8.1

Administrative Costs Funding for centralized administrative costs, including equity

tool development, website design, data, auditing, and

associated costs.

$4.22

$77.32

3.2 Hyperlocal and Community-Based Outreach - $17.6 Million

Push information regarding services and resources to the community, through community members, to ensure equitable

access to all.

Community-Based

Outreach

Support for community-based partnership, promotores

programs, community health workers, and community

ambassador programs to ensure local communities are aware

of recovery resources and services as they emerge from the

pandemic.

Program Description

$15.0

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Ethnic and Hyperlocal

Media

Continue investments in and outreach to hyperlocal and

ethnic media outlets to push critical pandemic and recovery

information to all communities and sustain ethnic media

competencies and connections established by the LA County

Joint Information Center.

$2.6

$17.6

3.3 Support the Sustained Public Health Response to COVID-19 - $22.5 million

Support a sustained public health response to ensure all residents are safe from COVID-19.

Public Health Emergency

Funding

Support the public health response to critical and emerging

pandemic needs where no other funding source is available,

including but not limited to quarantine and isolation housing,

surveillance, and contact tracing.

Program Description

$20.0

Sanitation Services for

People Experiencing

Homelessness

Provide sanitation and garbage collection services for people

experiencing homelessness to ensure clean public spaces and

prevent the spread of disease.

$2.5

$22.5

3.4 Capital Programs - $50.0 million

Fund capital costs for the infrastructure necessary to meet LA County’s most serious challenges.

Capital Programs Fund one-time capital construction costs for projects that

increase LA County’s capacity to provide public health, health

care, alternatives to incarceration, and safety net services.

Program Description

$50.0

$50.0

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Jurisdiction

 Allocations -

Treasury Dept./CA 

DOF (in millions) Jurisdiction

 Allocations - Treasury 

Dept./CA DOF (in 

millions) Jurisdiction

 Allocations - Treasury 

Dept./CA DOF (in millions) 

Agoura Hills $ 4.84 Hawaiian Gardens $ 3.39 Pasadena $ 52.63

Alhambra $ 21.85 Hawthorne $ 30.52 Pico Rivera $ 14.77

Arcadia $ 8.86 Hermosa Beach $ 4.62 Pomona $ 45.37

Artesia $ 3.97 Hidden Hills $ 0.45 Rancho Palos Verdes $ 9.93

Avalon $ 0.88 Huntington Park $ 29.60 Redondo Beach $ 6.80

Azusa $ 11.95 Industry $ 0.48 Rolling Hills $ 0.44

Baldwin Park $ 22.92 Inglewood $ 31.76 Rolling Hills Estates $ 1.93

Bell $ 8.50 Irwindale $ 0.35 Rosemead $ 17.88

Bell Gardens $ 10.05 La Cañada Flintridge $ 4.79 San Dimas $ 8.04

Bellflower $ 21.46 La Harba Heights $ 1.55 San Fernando $ 5.82

Beverly Hills $ 8.08 La Mirada $ 11.53 San Gabriel $ 9.54

Bradbury $ 0.26 La Puente $ 9.48 San Marino $ 3.12

Burbank $ 25.55 La Verne $ 7.65 Santa Clarita $ 35.15

Calabasas $ 5.70 Lakewood $ 11.31 Santa Fe Springs $ 4.22

Carson $ 17.78 Lancaster $ 36.34 Santa Monica $ 28.57

Cerritos $ 6.27 Lawndale $ 7.75 Sierra Madre $ 2.58

Claremont $ 8.68 Lomita $ 4.86 Signal Hill $ 2.73

Commerce $ 3.03 Long Beach $ 135.75 South El Monte $ 4.92

Compton $ 34.43 Los Angeles $ 1,278.90 South Gate $ 34.56

Covina $ 11.35 Lynwood $ 24.45 South Pasadena $ 6.06

Cudahy $ 5.64 Malibu $ 2.83 Temple City $ 8.57

Culver City $ 9.37 Manhattan Beach $ 8.42 Torrance $ 24.07

Diamond Bar $ 6.83 Maywood $ 6.45 Vernon $ 0.26

Downey $ 25.44 Monrovia $ 8.69 Walnut $ 7.10

Duarte $ 5.09 Montebello $ 16.76 West Covina $ 19.57

El Monte $ 42.56 Monterey Park $ 15.04 West Hollywood $ 8.73

El Segundo $ 3.97 Norwalk $ 28.05 Westlake Village $ 1.97

Gardena $ 15.00 Palmdale $ 35.45 Whittier $ 16.36

Glendale $ 43.52 Palos Verdes Estates $ 3.18 LA County $ 1,949.97

Glendora $ 7.53 Paramount $ 18.90

Subtotal $ 401.36 Subtotal $ 1,779.30 Subtotal $ 2,331.66

Total $ 4,512.32

Los Angeles County and 88 City Allocations - American Rescue Plan - Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds 

As of July 23, 2021 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT

Estimated Funding for LA County and Its Cities

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