Welcome to the one-day week: LAs $230K-a-year politicians now want to do even less work while the city rots

Los Angeles City Council members earning nearly a quarter of a million dollars per year want to only meet one day per week as the city faces growing crises.The council — whose base salaries start at $245,255 and can climb as high as $270,389 — voted 12-0 on June 30 in favor of putting on the November ballot a measure slashing the City Charter’s minimum requirement.One member of the 15-member council, Monica Rodriguez, walked out in protest, while two others were absent for the vote.One of those pushing the change, Katy Yaroslavsky, moaned she was always working — whether it was in City Hall, in her district or “doing dishes and vacuuming at home.”But critics were quick to leap on the proposal.Councilwoman Rodriguez claimed her fellow members were just being lazy and saying it will be hated by the public.Council meetings are where some of the city’s biggest decisions become law, with members voting on billion-dollar budgets, police funding, homelessness programs, housing projects and major developments.Currently, they can last anywhere from two hours to eight hours depending on the complexity of the subject, and they act as forum for residents to publicly hold officials to account.“The idea that members of this council would ask the public to grant them less days of showing up for work for council meetings is tone deaf,” Rodriguez told The California Post.California Post News: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, WhatsApp, LinkedInCalifornia Post Sports Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, XCalifornia Post Opinion California Post Newsletters: Sign up here!California Post App: Download here!Home delivery: Sign up here!Page Six Hollywood: Sign up here!She argued that packed schedules demanded better management, not fewer required meeting days.“A lot of that just is born out of good planning, proper planning as a committee chair.

I do believe the public expects us to conduct these meetings,” she said.“What the people want are elected offic...