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California Mayors Join in Fight to Keep Dollars at Home |
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Cities vs State on $$
Information provided by Mayor Villaraigosa media office.
With leaders in Sacramento threatening to balance the state budget through cuts to funding for cities, Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa and the other mayors of the nine largest cities in California joined together to urge Sacramento to preserve hundreds of millions of dollars in promised state funding to cities for redevelopment and basic services.
In letters to the Governor and the Democratic and Republican leadership, the mayors warned that a cut in funding could risk delivery of critical and basic services - such as public safety - as cities continue to struggle with their own.
Under proposed plans to repeal state redevelopment funds, the Community Redevelopment Agency in Los Angeles could lose $10 million in funding.
“Proposals to permanently sweep funds from redevelopment agencies threaten to undermine one of the key tools that cities have to grow the economy,” the mayors wrote, adding “even a small redirection of local redevelopment dollars to Sacramento would worsen this ripple and our prospects for economic recovery.
The mayors who co-signed the letters are: Alan Autry (Fresno), Ron Dellums (Oakland), Gavin Newsom (San Francisco), Bob Foster (Long Beach), Heather Fargo (Sacramento), Chuck Reed (San Jose), Jerry Sanders (San Diego) and Miguel Pulido (Santa Ana). ◘
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