Measure M can thaw L.A. County’s glacial traffic: Guest commentary

By David Fleming and Gilbert Ivey POSTED: 10/28/16, 12:42 PM PDT | Without action, Los Angeles traffic is about to get a lot worse. More productive hours of the day will be wasted on jammed highways. The snail’s pace of delivering goods and services will continue to drive business away. The spirit of even the […]

BizFed supports Beutner/Kantor proposal to reboot DWP

While BizFed has not taken a position on the size of the DWP rate increase itself, the BizFed Board voted to support four key solutions outlined in the op-ed linked below. BizFed is therefore opposed to any additional money from rate payers getting allocated to the City’s General Fund. BizFed is also closely following the LA City […]

BizFed Installs Officers for 2016

By HOWARD FINE Thursday, January 21, 2016 The Los Angeles County Business Federation, the umbrella group of local business organizations, has installed its new officers for 2016. The federation, commonly called BizFed, is an alliance of 155 business organizations in Los Angeles County representing 275,000 businesses that employ roughly 3 million people. It formed eight […]

BizFed Leadership Roundtable with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez

On Friday, November 6, BizFed leaders met with Assemblymember Jimmy Gomez, Chairman, Committee on Appropriations. Attendees learned that Asm. Gomez and Sen. Beall, Co-Chairs of Transportation Infrastructure Conference Committee, will ensure transportation funding bills get full floor votes this spring. Want to learn more? Click here for the full onesheet. Leadership roundtables are exclusive opportunities […]

BizFed recommends Short Term Rental principles to LA City Council

The BizFed Land Use, Housing, and Development Committee voted to recommend the following principles to guide the creation of a City of Los Angeles short-term rental ordinance: Local governments should collect Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) based on short-term rentals. Local governments should create simple processes to enable platforms to facilitate TOT collection if those platforms so […]

BizFed delivers wins on supermajority of bills we worked in 2015!

Sunday was the deadline for Gov. Brown to act on bills coming out of this year’s state legislative session, and we are pleased to report that more than two-thirds of the bills BizFed mobilized either to support or oppose resulted in our desired outcome.  Please see below for a full list of our bills and […]