Los Angeles County’s proposed budget for the next year is $1.4 billion smaller than the previous year’s. The budget includes funding for more mental health workers, increased funding for homeless services, and a lower allocation for the Sheriff’s Department. The budget also includes $728.2 million in Measure H funding to address homelessness and $452 new jobs for the Department of Mental Health to run the new CARE Court program. The budget does not contain funding to address sexual abuse claims in foster homes, children’s shelters, and probation camps and halls, but the county is still assessing how it will address the matter. The county will hold public hearings on the budget over the next two months, and the supervisors can propose changes before voting on it in June.