Budget cuts

We'll be reporting in Saturday's newspaper and later this afternoon on our Internet web site on Whittier City Manager Steve Helvey's plan to reduce the city budget by 5 percent.

The plan is expected to be released late this afternoon when the City Council agenda packet goes out. Helvey asked all of his department directors for proposed cuts in their budgets. The plan will go to the City Council at a 7:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at Parnell Park, 15350 Lambert Road, Whittier. Note the later time and different site.