The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is currently the county's governing body and has ultimate authority over all county operations except for duties assigned to the sheriff, the district attorney and the assessor. Those powers and duties will change under Measure G, which assigns the board to a legislative and oversight role and eliminates its executive powers. It remains unclear whether supervisors will retain executive powers in unincorporated county areas.
Los Angeles County provides public health services for the City of Los Angeles, yet the city has a Health Commission that is largely ignored for being redundant.
There is some irony in the decision to let the assessor appoint a member to the Ethics Commission but not the district attorney. Former Assessor John Noguez is currently on trial for bribery. District Attorney Nathan Hochman is the former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
