Mayor warns of tough year
With Los Angeles and the nation on the brink of recession, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told business leaders Thursday that the city is in for another tough year and should focus on retaining and building its work force.Daily News.
"Last year, we had a $400 million (budget) shortfall that forced us to eliminate 767 (city) positions," Villaraigosa told the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce as it met at City Hall as part of its annual Access L.A. program.
"This year, we might be looking at the same thing and it will require us to look at this as an opportunity to become more efficient and concentrate on our core issues."
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Thanks for giving us a heads up Mr. Mayor and Councilwomen Greuel. We can now expect you to lay off at least another 767 or more highly paid union city employees. I'm sure you will try and raise business city taxes and permits. Once again you will raise utility rates and make more pass through rate increases to cover your over spending. Then I expect you to spend city money on your travel expenses while you do non city business and take a few dollars out of your campaign funds to cover up for it. Continue to make more costly photo ops and of course your programs that show no results. You make a good example by allowing city parking cops to not ticket city employees who parked in front of business which has helped them go out of business. You have the city council to rubber stamp all your requests and if it goes the way you want you will have a new controller to make things go really easy for you. Thank you for the heads up! I will leave you with this, "Without control there is no liquidity." this administration has no control.