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 county's vote came on the day the countywide sales tax increased by a quarter-cent to provide additional funding for anti-homelessness programs.