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EXHIBIT H
REQUIRED ORDINANCE CHANGES AND OTHER BUDGETARY ACTIONS

The list below outlines actions necessary to be taken by the Mayor and Council to effectuate the 2021-22
Budget. These include ordinance changes and other actions.

I. ORDINANCE CHANGES

1. Authorize the issuance of an amount not-to-exceed $2.01 billion in Tax and Revenue Anticipation
Notes to address short-term cash flow needs and to make the full annual contribution payments
to the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System Fund and to the Los Angeles Fire and
Police Pensions Fund.

City Attorney

2. Request the City Attorney to prepare and present all revenue-generating ordinances as
expeditiously as possible, but no later than 30 days after final budget adoption.

City Planning

3. Request the City Attorney to prepare and present an ordinance to amend Sections 19.00 through
19.12 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code to update fees collected in the Planning Case
Processing Special Fund to ensure full cost recovery for staffing, expenses, and equipment that
support functions necessary for the processing of planning and land use applications.

Community Investment for Families

4. Request the City Attorney to prepare and present an ordinance to establish the Community
Investment for Families Department.

Information Technology Agency

5. Request the City Attorney to amend Section 5.97 of the Los Angeles Administrative Code to
remove the restriction to deposit 40 percent of cable franchise fee receipts to the
Telecommunications Development Account, and instead have these funds deposited as a
General Fund receipt.

6. Request the City Attorney to draft an ordinance to create a new Special Fund for receipt of one
percent public, educational, and government (PEG) fees from Time Warner Cable, in order to
segregate the two sources of PEG fees into two separate funds to facilitate easier accounting and
reconciliation.

Youth Development

7. Request the City Attorney to prepare and present an ordinance to establish the Youth
Development Department.

II. OTHER BUDGETARY ACTIONS

City Administrative Officer

8. Instruct the Office of the City Administrative Officer, in consultation with the Mayor’s Office and
Chief Legislative Assistant, to report during 2021-22 with recommendations of reinstating a Hiring
Freeze and reestablishing the Managed Hiring Committee in the event that the City's revenue
recovery and financial performance does not meet budgetary projections.

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