LA County Board to Weigh Recovery Residence Oversight and MLK Farmers Market Motions on November 17
The Executive Office of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has issued the agenda notice for the Board's regular meeting on Tuesday, November 17, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 381B of the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles. Among the items are two motions, by Third District Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath and Second District Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, addressing oversight of non-clinical recovery residences and fresh food access at the Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Campus.
Horvath's motion would direct County Counsel, in consultation with the Department of Public Health's Substance Abuse Prevention and Control division, the District Attorney, the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs, Regional Planning, Public Works, the Fire Department, the Sheriff's Department and other departments, along with community stakeholders, to report back in writing within 120 days with a coordinated, risk-based protocol for addressing alleged unlawful conduct by non-clinical recovery residences, covering complaint systems, safeguards for county referrals and enforcement standards. The motion notes that recovery residences, commonly known as sober-living homes, are not licensed or routinely investigated by the California Department of Health Care Services when they operate solely as housing without clinical services, creating an oversight gap that has historically been exploited through practices such as billing insurers or Medi-Cal for services that were not provided.
Mitchell's motion cites county public health data showing that 40.7 percent of residents in Service Planning Area 6 live in food-insecure households, that the area's diagnosed adult diabetes rate of 16.7 percent is the highest in the county, and that nearly one in three residents does not live near a supermarket or grocery store. The nonprofit SEE-LA, doing business as Food Access LA, has operated the Watts Willowbrook Farmers' Market at the MLK Medical Campus since 2017, accepting CalFresh and WIC. The motion would find the gratis license agreement categorically exempt under the California Environmental Quality Act, waive the $200-per-market-day day-use permit fee for up to 55 market days per year during the license term, and delegate authority to the Chief Executive Officer to negotiate and execute a two-year gratis license agreement with SEE-LA within 60 days.
Residents can watch the meeting through the Live Board Meeting page on the Board's website, call in to address the Board, or submit written public comment. The Executive Office of the Board is at 500 W. Temple St, Los Angeles, and can be reached at (213) 974-1411.
(Source: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors)
Source: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
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Photo: 图：位于洛杉矶市中心的洛杉矶县 Kenneth Hahn 行政大楼，监事会例会在此举行。Visitor7 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons，GSM 县级固定图库。 / Photo: The Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles, where the Board of Supervisors meets. By Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, GSM county asset library.
