PBI Quiz: June 2026 - Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs

1. LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigned in June, months after an FBI raid tied to what?

A redistricting scandal involving school board boundaries.

A failed, multimillion-dollar AI chatbot contract with a now-defunct ed-tech company.

Allegations of mishandling bond funds for new school construction.

A dispute over standardized testing data.

2. Who did Mayor Bass bring in to lead her reelection campaign after strategist Doug Herman stepped down citing “strategic differences”?

Megan Choi, a progressive organizer who once ran Nithya Raman’s council campaign

Former LA City Council President Herb Wesson

Democratic strategist David Axelrod, an architect of the 2008 Obama victory

Julie Chávez Rodríguez, a veteran of the Biden and Harris campaigns and granddaughter of Cesar Chavez

3. As part of its charter reform package, the Los Angeles City Charter Reform Commission recommended asking voters to give the City Council authority over which city department, capping months of advocacy from community groups?

Los Angeles Police Department

Department of Water and Power

The mayor’s Inside Safe program

Bureau of Sanitation

4. LA County voters narrowly approved Measure ER in June. What does it do?

Establishes an elected county health czar

Imposes a half-cent sales tax for five years to fund public healthcare amid federal Medi-Cal cuts

Creates a new countywide ambulance service

Bans new hospital construction in unincorporated areas

5. What structural change is the LA County Board of Supervisors expected to undergo by 2032?

It will be eliminated in favor of a directly elected county executive

It will become a part-time, unpaid body

It will expand from five members to nine members

Supervisors will be limited to a single four-year term

6. Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders recently announced a $351.7 billion budget deal that aims to eliminate structural deficits through 2028 and avoids deep social service cuts. The budget includes a new tax on what?

Streaming subscriptions

Cannabis dispensary deliveries

Digital software sales

Anything sold with the word “artisanal” on the label

7. Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency for Los Angeles County on June 20 in response to which event?

A statewide drought emergency

Wildfires in the Sierra foothills

A cyberattack on the DMV

The Boyle Heights warehouse fire

8. Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson is set to join the LA Metro Board of Directors effective July 1, filling a seat vacated by whom?

Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr.

Glendale Councilmember Ara Najarian

Whittier Councilman Fernando Dutra

LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger

9. SoFi Stadium concession and hospitality workers, represented by Unite Here Local 11, voted on what just before the World Cup began?

Whether to ratify a tentative contract agreement

Whether to accept a new uniform policy

Whether to endorse a mayoral candidate

Whether to authorize a strike over stalled contract talks

10. Lineage Logistics, owner of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned for over a week, said the fire likely started during what activity?

Contractors testing a rooftop solar array

Routine forklift battery charging

An electrical fire in the loading dock

A welding accident during a building renovation

June 2026

Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs

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