Angelenos got to vote on which community programs LA should fund

More than a dozen community organizations will get a slice of $5.4 million in funding from the city of Los Angeles thanks to a pilot program that gives historically marginalized communities more say in how city funds are spent in their neighborhoods.

The “participatory budgeting” process established under the Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgement of Institutional Racism program, better known as L.A. REPAIR, was approved in 2021 by the City Council and then-Mayor Eric Garcetti.