General managers of two LA city departments fired without warning

Mayor Karen Bass fired Jaime Pacheco-Orozco and Carolyn Hull, the general managers of L.A.’s Department of Aging and Department of Economic and Workforce Development, respectively, on Thursday, according to multiple sources inside the city government.

In budget negotiations earlier this year, Bass announced her intentions to consolidate the Departments of Aging, Economic and Workforce Development and Youth Development into the Community and Family Investment Department.

The mayor’s office wrote in its summary of the proposed budget in April that current programs in the departments are “not strategically aligned” and could be more efficient if housed under a single department.

Councilmember Monica Rodriguez confirmed the firings and told LAist she thinks it is too soon to know if a singl