Stand Up for What's Right: Reform Efforts Depend on You

摘要

Last year, every city in California was hit hard by the recession and the state's grim fiscal outlook. Local officials grappled with the effects of revenue shortfalls, growing unemployment, volatile financial markets and foreclosures. Not a single city went unscathed as local officials were forced to cut vital community services and personnel in response to California's record budget deficits.rnAs city officials, we are all too familiar with the state's propensity for taking, borrowing and diverting local revenues to backfill the gaping hole created by the budget deficit.