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LA faces insolvency without using $90M in reserves
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Monday, April 5, 2010

Posted on 04/05/2010 6:25:45 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The Los Angeles city controller has warned the mayor and City Council that the city will not be able to make payroll next month if it doesn't dip into its reserve fund.

In a memo to officials on Monday, Controller Wendy Greuel said the city faces its most urgent fiscal crisis in recent history after the council blocked a proposed electricity rate hike last week

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezones; california; democrats; economy; losangeles; taxandspend
If you were going to visit you had better hurry before they go bankrupt and close the city.
1 posted on 04/05/2010 6:25:45 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

How many emergency funds do they have stashed away?


2 posted on 04/05/2010 6:28:55 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: artichokegrower

Hollywood rez here..the story is on the LAT site. It’s going to be an interesting story now that kids are put of school, no money to spend, and bored to death.


3 posted on 04/05/2010 6:30:26 PM PDT by max americana
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To: artichokegrower

Ruh-Roh...they are eating the seed corn.


4 posted on 04/05/2010 6:32:08 PM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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To: artichokegrower

CommieCrate Mayor and all who voted to elect him deserve all that is about to fall upon them!


5 posted on 04/05/2010 6:33:54 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: bert

States that the reserve funds will last until June 30. Don’t know what happens then.


6 posted on 04/05/2010 6:35:35 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Idiots who can’t balance their own checkbooks running the finances of a whole city, what could go wrong? /s


7 posted on 04/05/2010 6:39:04 PM PDT by 23 Everest (Vote them all out of office!)
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LA faces insolvency without using $90M in reserves

Pass the popcorn. This is getting interesting.

8 posted on 04/05/2010 6:50:21 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: artichokegrower

The unions enabled by their bought-and-paid-for pols have managed to drive the city into bankruptcy.


9 posted on 04/05/2010 6:59:38 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- follow the money and you'll find truth.)
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$90 million is nothing in Los Angeles $7 BILLION budget: 1.3%.
It is a ploy for higher taxes.
Tell them to eat cake.


10 posted on 04/05/2010 7:09:58 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (NEW TAG ====> **REPEAL OR REBEL!** -- Islam Delenda Est! -- Rumble thee forth)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

That $7 billion is the annual budget. That includes pension, health benefits, infrastructure, schools, roads, hospitals, airports, etc. What is short is the monthly payroll kitty.


11 posted on 04/05/2010 7:16:13 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Today we are facing the consequences of the city's failure to enact the necessary rate increases

So says Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Nothing said about the city's failure to enact the necessary spending decreases.
12 posted on 04/06/2010 3:00:57 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (0bama's presidency isn't a complete waste. It can always serve as a negative example.)
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