Each of the five L.A. County supervisors represents more people than the entire populations of 13 states.
“I am absolutely open to it,” Mitchell told LAist. But she also noted that voters turned down efforts to increase the size of the board in the past, “so I think we need to look at why.”
The City Hall secret recording scandal has prompted calls to not only expand the City Council but the Board of Supervisors as well. The recording of top city officials and a powerful labor leader discussing how to hold onto their power during the decennial process of redrawing council district boundaries sparked outrage and calls for reform.
“I think it’s extremely difficult to represent your district well,” said Rob Quan, an activist with Unrig LA, which focuses on representative government and money in politics in L.A. “Beyond that, I think having just five members on our board makes it really difficult to represent the diversity of the county.”
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