Mayor of the City of Los Angeles
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Mayor of the City of Los Angeles
Karen Bass is the 43rd Mayor of Los Angeles and the first woman and second African American to be elected as the city's chief executive. With an agenda focused on bringing urgency, accountability, and a new direction to Los Angeles, she will start her term with a focus on housing people immediately and increasing safety and opportunity in every part of Los Angeles.
A daughter of our city, Mayor Bass was raised with her three brothers in the Venice/Fairfax neighborhood and is a proud graduate of Hamilton High School. After serving as a front-line healthcare provider as a nurse and as a Physician Assistant, Mayor Bass founded the Community Coalition to organize the predominantly Black and Latino residents of South L.A. against substance abuse, poverty and crime, and to pioneer strategies to address the root causes behind the challenges faced by underserved neighborhoods.
She then went on to represent Los Angeles in the State Assembly and was elected by her peers to serve as Speaker, making her the first African American woman to ever lead a state legislative body in the history of the United States. Her time in leadership intersected with the Great Recession, and she was honored with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for reaching across party lines and making tough decisions to keep the state from bankruptcy while protecting vital services.
While representing Los Angeles and Culver City in Congress, Mayor Bass helped protect small businesses during the pandemic, created policy to drive local jobs from federal infrastructure funding, and led the passage of what the Los Angeles Times called “the most significant child welfare policy reform in decades.”
Mayor Bass earned her bachelor's degree in health sciences from CSU Dominguez Hills before graduating from the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program and earning her masters degree in social work from USC.
Mayor Bass’s oldest daughter Emilia planned to follow in her mother’s footsteps working for social change. The Mayor-elect continues to be inspired by Emilia and her son-in-law Michael’s passion for life. She has three other children, Scythia, Omar and Yvette, and two grandchildren, Michael and Henry, who live in the Los Angeles area.
Board reports acted upon most recently by committees to which Karen Bass belongs
2023-0287 - STATE AND FEDERAL REPORT Received
5/18/2023 - RECEIVED AND FILED
Ara Najarian
Budgeting
California State Transportation Agency
Center for Transportation Excellence
East Los Angeles
Federal Transit Administration
GoPass
Gold Line Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2
Grant Aid
Housing
Hubs
Informational Report
Link Union Station
Metro Rail C Line
Metro Rail E Line
Metro Rail K Line
Metro Rail L Line
Motion / Motion Response
Pasadena
Program
Project
Rail transit
Transit Pass
Transit operators
United States Department Of Transportation
West Santa Ana Branch Transit Corridor
2023-0219 - ON-CALL COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT SERVICES BENCH Approved
AUTHORIZE the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to execute Modification No. 1 to Task Order No. 1 with Lee Andrews Group under the Communications Support Services Bench Contract No. PS85397007 to ...
5/25/2023 - APPROVED
Budgeting
Cleaning
Contracts
Customer service
Metro Rail A Line
Metro Rail K Line
Metro Transit Ambassadors
Plan
Procurement
Program
Rail Ops Mgmt & Admin (Project)
Request For Proposal
Safety
2023-0296 - EXPRESSLANES PAY-AS-YOU-GO PILOT EVALUATION Active
CONSIDER: A. RECEIVING AND FILING the ExpressLanes Pay-As-You-Go Pilot evaluation methodology and findings; B. AUTHORIZING the Pay-As-You-Go Program permanent, eliminate the $25 penalty for ...
5/18/2023 - FORWARDED WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION
Audit
Budget
Budgeting
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Customer service
Evaluation and assessment
Express lanes
General purpose lanes
I-10
I-110
Impact fees
Metro Equity Platform
Metro ExpressLanes
Motion / Motion Response
Off peak periods
Payment
Peak periods
Policy
Program
Strategic planning
Tolls
Travel time
Volume
2022-0868 - TRANSIT LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES Approved
CONSIDER: A. AUTHORIZING the Chief Executive Officer to negotiate and execute contract modifications to extend the current multi-agency transit law enforcement contracts annually for up to ...
3/23/2023 - APPROVED AS AMENDED
Audit
Bias-Free Policing Policy
Budget
Budgeting
City of Los Angeles
Contracts
Customer service
Housing
Law enforcement
Law enforcement personnel
Long Beach
Long Beach Police Department
Los Angeles Police Department
Los Angeles Sheriffs Department
Police
Policy
Procurement
Public Safety Analytics Policy
Public policy
Request For Proposal
Ridership
Safety
Safety and security
Safety programs
Security
Surveys
System safety
Transit System
Transit authorities
Uniform Crime Reporting
Visibility
2023-0089 - MOBILITY WALLET PILOT UPDATES Approved
APPROVE: A. the finding that Mobility Wallets are exempt from federal income tax because the payments promote the general welfare of low-income eligible participants and do not represent ...
3/23/2023 - APPROVED
Bike and ride
Budgeting
Central Los Angeles subregion
City of Los Angeles
Demand responsive transportation
Grant Aid
Low-Income Fare is Easy (LIFE)
Memorandum Of Understanding
Metro Bike Share
Metro Vision 2028 Plan
Partnerships
Payment
Project
Promotion
Rail transit
Ridesharing
San Fernando Valley subregion
Shared mobility
South Bay Cities subregion
South Los Angeles
Sustainable transportation
Testing
Transit buses
Twenty-eight by '28 Initiative
Vehicle sharing
Westside Cities subregion
Zoning