Budget Shocker: Los Angeles Shows $119 Million Surplus
Budget Shocker: Los Angeles Shows $119 Million Surplus
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:00
By Gary Cohn, Frying Pan News | Report
For five years a chorus of voices has been predicting bankruptcy for Los Angeles, while often calling for deeper cuts to city employee pensions. Today, however, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed a budget for Fiscal Year 2013-2014 that includes a one-time surplus of $119 million. While some of that surplus would rely on additional pay and benefit reductions for city workers, even without such cuts the city would have a projected surplus of close to $100 million.
Its better than seeing the light at the end of the tunnel were almost out of the tunnel! Matt Szabo, Mayor Villaraigosas deputy chief of staff, told Frying Pan News in an interview last week. Szabo discussed the citys financial picture and said that dire financial warnings have been largely overblown.
One of the issues thats highly irritating is the ease with which some people have thrown around the bankruptcy term, Szabo said. Thats not going to happen.
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