LOS ANGELES : Anti-Gang Funding Delayed Pending Review

Supporters of the anti-gang Hope in Youth program encountered more delays Friday in their attempts to loosen millions of dollars in city and county funding to start the project.

The Los Angeles City Council failed to muster enough votes to create a $2.5-million trust account to fund the program and sent it back to the Community Redevelopment and Housing Committee for further review.

Later in the day, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, a key backer of the program, and other religious and community leaders met with the county’s chief administrative officer, Harry Hufford, to try to iron out issues that would allow the county to release up to $2.9 million committed to the project. Hufford promised to draw up a contract to present to the Board of Supervisors by early September, a county spokeswoman said.