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Mayor Eric Garcetti calls for furloughs of thousands of L.A. city workers
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Mayor Eric Garcetti, during his annual State of the City address, said the city will need to make cuts to

A 20-story residential tower planned in downtown Los Angeles is at the heart of a federal probe involving a developer who allegedly arranged a $500,000 bribe for a City Council member, a Times analysis shows.

Sunday’s address comes at an extraordinary time for Garcetti and the city. Over the last five weeks, he has issued emergency orders to close businesses, halt evictions, require face masks, waive parking tickets and generally keep Angelenos away from each other on beaches, hiking trails and in other locations.

With much of the city staying indoors, Sunday’s speech bore little resemblance to previous State of the City addresses in L.A. Gone was the color guard and the other ceremonial flourishes that typically accompany Garcetti’s yearly address to the city.In normal years, Garcetti has delivered the address before hundreds of people in packed venues such as the California Science Center and the Valley Performing Arts Center at Cal State Northridge.

The coronavirus outbreak and accompanying economic downturn pose by far the biggest challenge to Garcetti and other city leaders in more than a decade. Revenue for the coming budget year could be as much as $598 million below projections, depending on how long Angelenos continue staying indoors, according to figuresMuch of the reductions have been caused by the steep drop-off in tourism activity, including a major decline in projected hotel bed taxes, Galperin said. Since stay-at-home orders were issued across the state,

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