In the News

As cities began to hold budget hearings and adopt budgets, we'll start seeing an avalanche of news stories about the trade off between salary reductions and layoffs.

Click here for the latest from Roseville, one of the wealthiest local governments in the state. Their revenue base is highly dependent on auto sales and retail sales--the two revenue sources which have dropped the most over the past year.

We've been tracking Santa Rosa closely for months. The story you can access here reports good news. Major layoffs have been avoided as both the Police and Fire Departments have made major salary concessions to save jobs.

Things aren't going as well in San Bernardino as a minority of the City Council is attempting to restore vacant firefighter positions that were frozen to save jobs. You can read about it here.

Here in Manteca, the Bulletin wrote a very positive story this past weekend (click here) about our attempts to meet our budget goals without impacting jobs and service levels. We've still got a lot of work to do, but I'm confident that our bargaining groups will do everything they can to work with us to preserve the high level of service expected by our community.