LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Supervisors OK Fall Vote on Board Expansion Plans
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday gave final approval to a November ballot measure that would expand the board.
On a 3-to-2 vote, with supervisors Deane Dana and Mike Antonovich dissenting, the board approved placing two expansion plans on the November ballot. One would increase the board from five members to seven; the other from five to nine.
The proposals, initially approved by the board on April 14, still must be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice before they can be placed on the ballot. Latino voting-rights advocates prefer the nine-district plan, which they say would give the county’s Latino population majority voting power in two districts.
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