The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a new county department for regional homeless services, stripping hundreds of millions in funding from a joint city-county agency that's faced audits criticizing its handling of taxpayers' money.

The seismic move comes despite objections from several Los Angeles City Councilmembers who said the process of creating a county department that moves taxpayer funds from the Los Angeles Homeless

The plan would move more than $300 million and hundreds of workers out of the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority and into a new county department.