Budget Hearing Cancelled Because City Council Spent Too Much Time On Other Things
Written by 991KBU on January 15, 2021
There was supposed to be a city council subcommittee meeting this week … an update on the city’s wildly fluctuating budget situation.
The Woolsey Fire … reconstruction fee waivers … the COVID crisis … plummeting hotel tax and B vacation rental tax revenue have all buffeted the city balances.
A spending freeze was enacted.
So … how is that budget doing???
There was supposed to be a city council subcommittee meeting this week … to talk about the budget.
But the city council on Monday night was tied up on procedural arguments … procedural points of order … and what many residents called pointless bickering …
It adjourned before the council could appoint an Administration and Finance subcommittee.
No subcommittee … no subcommittee budget meeting.
So many questions were posed about the minutae of regular city warrant payments … that citizens are not going to get the broad overview of the city’s financial state at a time of crisis.
