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Surprise, Pomona Has a Budget Deficit
By Centinel | May 9, 2008
Look, I don’t consider myself a journalist. But I do contribute a lot to this site and try to stay as informed as you would expect of an above-average politically-interested citizen. Every day, I read through dozens, if not hundreds of articles to find things interesting to the Foothill Cities and share them. And then, occasionally, I read an article that informs me, not only does Pomona have a budget deficit, but it used to be bigger. That means I completely missed it first time around. Shame on me. But it also makes me wonder: if I don’t know it, and I invest a couple hours a day minimum in this kind of news, how many people in Pomona actually know? From the Daily Bulletin:
Next year’s city budget shortfall has been reduced from $10.4million to $3.6million, but it comes at the cost of at least 35 jobs. The city may need to tap into its reserve to close the remaining gap.
In a recent update on the development of the city’s 2008-09 preliminary budget, City Finance Director Paula Chamberlain explained the gap was narrowed through a variety of reductions that include the elimination of 25 vacant positions and another 10 that are filled.
The city’s general fund preliminary budget estimates revenue will be $93.6million and expenses $97.2million.
Of course, I’m not sure why I’m surprised that a city with Norma Torres at the helm should be running a deficit (snide alert!).
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May 9th, 2008 at 7:42 am
Ohhhhhh, you meant that you’re politically interested more than the average citizen! I thought you were just above average… and modest too.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I think you mean snipe alert.
Kidding, at least they trimmed some staff to get the budget balanced. I often wonder how much fat is in local govt that could be trimmed, or simply farmed out to the private sector and done cheaper.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I didn’t know about the exact deficit, but just looking around I can tell Pomona doesn’t have enough money. lol. The city promised me they’d look into considering implementing a trash receptical idea of mine in the Downtown area and it’s still (that I know of) in the “consideration process”, meaning they don’t have the moeny to do it right now…lol. Maybe Norma should stop hiring the “photographer” that takes her campaign pictures and donate the money to the city instead. lol. I don’t mean to be harsh (ok, maybe I do) but she looks retarded in that picture you used. haha…
I posted her best picture on my blog:
http://dailyfusion.blogspot.com/2008/05/spring-time-for-norma-and-pomona.html
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 am
What a surprise that we have a deficit! Former City Manager Dougie Dumlop was too busy screwing his girlfriend-empolyee Wendi for a year or so to concentrate on our budget!!!