Raman

“I’ve invested a lot of time into it, but so far the time I have invested in it has not necessarily yielded outcomes that I think are better for the city of Los Angeles,” Raman said, who is working on a separate system within the city to monitor its investments in homelessness.

The 22-member board is made up of all five county supervisors, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Raman, elected officials from several cities and nonprofit leaders.

Hours before the meeting, Bass and City Councilmember Nithya Raman, who heads the council’s homelessness committee, sent the supervisors a letter warning that the changes would ultimately deprive the city of “essential resources.”

Five council members — Bob Blumenfield, Ysabel Jurado, Tim McOsker, Katy Yaroslavsky and Raman — showed up in person to deliver a similar message, saying they feared the county was delivering a fatal blow to LAHSA, one that would undermine their own efforts to combat homelessness.

Raman said she and other council members had campaigned for Measure A, encouraging L.A. residents to increase the sales tax.