City Manager Scott Ochoa said it appears that the leadership of the California State Legislature is preparing an up-or-down vote on the budget - which includes killing redevelopment - for this Wednesday or Thursday. He writes: "At this point, my guess is that the budget package will pass along party lines." With the results of November's election, only a simple majority is required to pass the budget. After that, he writes, "the League of Cities and the California Redevelopment Association will file suit and the entire matter will be litigated - probably on the grounds of constitutionality."
Ochoa said that under Governor Brown's proposal, redevelopment agencies would disappear on July 1 of this year, to be replaced by successor agencies that would be controlled not by the city council, but by an oversight committee most likely controlled by outsiders who don't live in the city and are not answerable to its residents.
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- Brad Haugaard
I find it funny that except for Councilman Adams, all of the other Council members and the Mayor probably voted for Jerry Brown aka Governor Moonbeam. Don't they remember how Gov. Moonbeam screwed up California the last time he was Governor ? How he takes funds from all of the other dedicated special funds for certain programs and puts it all in the general fund. Once that's done, he goes after raising taxes on everything and everyone he can. Governor Brown is just not your typical tax and spend liberal, he also has his own way of gutting every state program so he can put those funds in the general fund so he can claim a budget surplus. I don't think it's going to happen this time. The tax and spend and over regulate Democrat liberals who have been bought by the public service employees unions have dug the hole so deep, California doesn't even look attractive to the illegal aliens anymore.
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