San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders signed the nearly $2.9 billion budget for the upcoming fiscal year. He included a large amount for fixing up the city. KPBS reporter Nicole Lozare has more.
Better streets, better sidewalks, and better buildings. Those are some of the projects Mayor Jerry Sanders is planning for 2008.
What didn't Sanders support? He vetoed about half a million dollars for the winter homeless shelter program. He says that money shouldn't come out of the general reserve fund.
Councilwoman Toni Atkins says city departments will have to operate as lean as possible for the budget to work.
Atkins : Some employees, in essence, will see pay cuts as we make the needed cuts and adjustments to employee benefits. We will all notice changes to the way the city does business, but it is the price we must pay for living within our means.
The budget eliminates more than 600 jobs. But most of those jobs are already vacant.
Nicole Lozare, KPBS News.
