Posted on 07/10/2012 11:06:57 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
While San Bernardino files for bankruptcy Costa Mesa, the city the AFL-CIO said was "bringing Wisconsin to California," just balanced their city budget for the second year in a row. Whose Union pensions are protected now?
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.dailypilot.com ...
Government union bosses are not happy.
Of course there are a lot more illegals in San Berdo than Costa Mesa as well.
My fave city in the OC. My favorite breakfast/diner shop is located there. Have buds who live there as well and the mayor (Monahan) detests illegals.
They should tax their meth manufacturers and distributors, then they would be in a surplus right now.
Costa Mesa is in Orange County - the only conservative county in California on the West Coast.
Shocker. /sarc
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The falsified document routine is what Greece used for all those years.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/10/4622910/third-calif-city-votes-to-declare.html
......”San Bernardino became the third California city in that small span to choose Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection with a City Council vote on Tuesday night.
The Southern California city of about 210,000 people will also become the second largest in the nation ever to file for bankruptcy. Stockton, the Northern California city of nearly 300,000, became the biggest when it filed for Chapter 9 on June 28. The much smaller city of Mammoth Lakes voted for bankruptcy July 3.
San Bernardino’s City Council directed the city attorney to make the move during a meeting where administrators explained the dire fiscal circumstances and urged them to choose the bankruptcy option.
“We have an immediate cash flow issue,” Interim City Manager Andrea Miller told Mayor Patrick Morris and the seven-member City Council, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Miller said the city is facing a budget shortfall of $45.8 million. It has already stopped paying some vendors, and may not be able to make payroll over the next three months.
Four council members voted for the authorization, two opposed it, and one abstained.
“This is probably the hardest decision this councilwoman will ever have to make in this chair,” Councilwoman Wendy McCammack said, according to the San Bernardino Sun.
The councilman who abstained from voting, John Valdivia, said he did not trust the information presented at the meeting, and having only served since March believed he should not be held responsible for the money mess.
“The taxpayers of this city have been duped, hoodwinked and misguided for the past several years,” Valdivia said, according to the Sun.”............
“Gov. Jerry Brown has backed away from his earlier call for legislators to put a pension-change measure on the November ballot, although the administration is continuing to push for statutory changes.
In an email to The State Worker, Brown spokeswoman Elizabeth Ashford said, “There won’t be pension changes on the November ballot. But we’ll get the reforms done, you can count on that.”............................
On Zero’s watch
The lack of trust I can understand, but as for the second ... he was elected to fix the mess. Taking a dive is not acceptable.
“The falsified document routine is what Greece used for all those years.”
Here in NJ as well; the future costs of retirees should be factored into any calculation when budgets are discussed. We had a police chief in a nearby town that retired with over $400K in unused sick time; the town agreed to pay him over 3 years for it (on top of his lavish pension). News stories like that got taxpayers’ attention. Now our road surfaces resemble something out of Mogadishu, “Stop” signs are covered with foliage, and towns are considering reducing garbage collection and firing firemen to deal with the costs of people who retired 20 years ago.
Governor Christie is heading in the right direction, but he has a real uphill struggle ahead of him.
San Bernardino is run by Lefties.Costa Mesa is SOLID REPUBLICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's the problem: Those greedy bastards in Costa Mesa aren't doing enough to help San Bernardino.
“Try the DMV for a taste of “diversity.”
Every DMV in the state is a “diversity” garbage showcase. But here in Hollywood, at least there are better looking chicks at the line up.
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