Mayor Calls for Budget Cuts to Offset Millions in Occupy LA Costs

Ironic that the movement has forced the kind of austerity measures it protested coming from Congress.

From CBS Los Angeles:

City agencies have been ordered to calculate what was spent on the Occupy LA protests.

Repairs to City Hall’s lawn where the Occupy group set up camp on Oct. 1 will require an estimated $400,000. The police action to clear out the encampment on Nov. 30 cost more than $700,000.

Additional expenses are attributed to hauling away debris from the camp, and cleaning up graffiti that defaced City Hall marble walls and trees.

Read the rest of the story here.