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Los Angeles MayR Karen Bass went back on Saturday and reportedly her wildfire recovery czar Steve Soboroff will receive $500,000 in compensation for 90 days of work.
Los Angeles Times First reported Saturday morning that real estate developer and long-time citizenship official Soboroff will receive a $500,000 salary in a three-month period to serve as the city’s “chief recovery officer.”
His compensation was from charity, but Bass first attacked Soboroff on January 17 and quickly reversed the course on Saturday night. She said Soborov will now manage the reconstruction of the city for free.
“Steve has been in Los Angeles,” Bass said, “I talked to him today and asked him to modify his agreement and work for free. “We agree that we don’t need to recover from what we do.” Distracting. ”
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Mayor Karen Bass and Steve Soboroff discussed restoration work at a press conference in Pacific Palisades on January 27, 2025 . (Drew A. Kelley/Mentiannews Group/Long Beach Press Conference via Getty Images)
Bass said the other person is longtime real estate director Randy Johnson, who will receive $250,000 in compensation from the charity to assist Soboroff, but he will now complete it for free as well This work.
On Johnson, Bass said she was “thanks to him for his generosity and expertise,” but the mayor’s office refused to name the charity or clarify how to raise funds.
Los Angeles City Councilman Monica Rodriguez, a member of the five-member committee, responsible for the recovery, told The New York Times that the charity would pay $750,000 to the two people, calling the payment a “Obscene”.
“He got $500,000 in his three months of work?” President Donald Trump’s special mission envoy, Ric Grenellwritten on Soborov’s X. “They call it a charity. Gross. Offensive.”
On January 11, 2025, a helicopter dripped as the Palisades fire grew near Mandeville Canyon, California and near Encino. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
Grenell, sitting next to Trump at a roundtable Pacific Fence “I get $0 – like a lot of people. It’s a good thing, there’s a string of federal funds in California.”
Larry Vein, a Pacific Palisades resident, suffered smoke damage to his home, condemned Soboroff for a $500,000 salary, saying no one should deal with the “economic interest” recovery work.
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Steve Danton, who lives in a temporary apartment in Marina Del Rey, said after his home was destroyed in a Palisades fire, Soboroff’s compensation was “making money”, adding that the city was experiencing a “leadership crisis.”
Soboroff, who previously held a volunteer position on the police commission and served on the committee that oversees the Ministry of Recreation and Parks, defended a $500,000 amount earlier Saturday.
Fire in Pacific Palisade Bowl Mobile Estate in Los Angeles on January 13, 2025, burned houses and burnt cars. (Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images)
He said he has the expertise, is taking on a comprehensive responsibility, including communicating with federal agencies, and has abandoned other real estate and environmental consulting efforts to become a wildfire recovery czar.
“I’ve been working for 35 years for free in some of the largest civic programs in Los Angeles. But no one asked me to give up everything. They did this time.” “And I said OK,” Soborov told the Times. , in my salary I have no conditions to take out from the city money, or from any wildfire survivors who would otherwise benefit from that money.”
Soborov said he had raised questions from “thousands of residents.” Replace damaged infrastructure.
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“At the end of the day, I’m doing all these things that other people are researching,” he said. “I’m implementing it to help people achieve their goals, which is to get back into their own house and get their jobs back.”
