If the city is truly and formally bankrupt, they can start peeling-back on the compensation for current and retired city employees under the supervision of the Bankruptcy court.
If they don’t do that, this is all just posturing in a scheme to raise taxes.
They have. They are being sued by CALPERS for not paying $4.5 million in pensions.
The County is suing them for a few million for unpaid County services.
The City Attorney is always saying inflammatory and controversial things.
The City of San Bernardino is very dysfunctional.