For the City Administrative Officer, HR&A prepared an analysis of the public service cost impacts on the City of Los Angeles from proposals for the San Fernando Valley and the Hollywood area to secede from Los Angeles. HR&A's analysis included a review of workload indicators and actual expenditures in 38 city departments and other operating units; review and commentary on service cost estimates prepared previously by city staff, and by others for the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO); and public testimony comparing the HR&A analyses with the other estimates before the Los Angeles City Council and LAFCO. The secession proposals were eventually rejected in a citywide election.