LA Governance Reform Project

The final report of the LA Governance Reform Project includes recommendations for independent restricting, reducing the size of Council districts and LAUSD districts, and ethics reform. Taken together, these recommendations propose a potential path forward for comprehensive, meaningful governance reform for a better-governed City of Los Angeles.

Take a deep dive into the research and resources underpinning the LA Governance Reform Project's recommendations, including issue briefs summarizing the key questions and a bibliography of sources cited in the report.

The LA Governance Reform Project is an independent multi-university partnership formed to develop governance reform proposals to advance a more transparent, accountable, and community-driven City of Los Angeles. The project is funded entirely by private philanthropy and guided by non-elected community and civic leaders.

Phase One focused on an Interim Report released in June which included draft recommendations. Phase Two was focused on gathering feedback and input to inform the final recommendations released in December 2023, in time for the potential inclusion on the 2024 ballot.