San Diego’s $118M Budget Gap: Tough Tradeoffs to Keep City Services Running
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San Diego faces a $118 million budget shortfall for the current year, prompting Mayor Todd Gloria to propose painful cuts to arts and culture, libraries, parks and recreation, while KPBS explains the underpinnings of the city’s finances—general fund, special revenue and enterprise funds—and what a structural deficit means, aided by an interactive budget-balancing game and insights from Independent Budget Analyst Charles Modica on how decisions are evaluated and made for the July 1–June 30 fiscal year.
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- Revised San Diego budget spares December Nights, some library hours, but not arts NBC 7 San Diego
- San Diego mayor restores some city services in revised budget to close $118M deficit 10News.com
- OB’s Robb Field Recreation Center remains targeted for potential closure in San Diego mayor’s revised budget plan San Diego Union-Tribune
- San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria unveils revised city budget draft fox5sandiego.com
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