Neighborhood councils and rollover funds

Although Los Angeles is facing another rough budget year, a city panel on Monday questioned a plan by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to take funds away from grass-roots neighborhood councils. Daily News.

Villaraigosa has proposed taking back some $1.9 million in "rollover" neighborhood council funds - money that individual councils had set aside for unspecified future projects.

But the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee, reviewing Villaraigosa's proposed $6.89 billion budget, said it would support protecting those funds.