The city of San Diego's decision to idle up to eight fire engines daily to save money has had an unintended consequence — revenue from fire inspections by those crews has plummeted.
This past weekend’s multi-billion dollar spending binge by redevelopment agencies is drawing mounting denunciation, with one story terming it “the redevelopment equivalent of chugging Hurricanes on Bourbon St.”
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With criticism mounting about cities’ fiscal protectionism, San Jose officials dramatically scaled back a plan to fast track tens of millions of redevelopment dollars to keep them away from core services.
This past weekend’s multi-billion dollar spending by redevelopment agencies is drawing mounting denunciation, with one story terming it “the redevelopment equivalent of chugging Hurricanes on Bourbon St.”
Acting with unprecedented haste in response to an apparently specious rumor, local politicians up and down the state are on track to ram through more than $1 billion in special pet projects at the expense of public safety, schools and core services. Local governments throughout California jammed through a blizzard of special projects, creating massive new taxpayer debt with almost no accountability.
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