Two years ago San Diego city leaders quietly formed a high-level task force of top executives and department heads to plan how to spend what seemed the salvation for the city’s entrenched budget problems.
Measure E, a proposed increase in the city sales tax of one cent, was headed toward the ballot in November. Its supporters at city hall and labor unions hoped it would generate an estimated $400 million in revenue annually.
Hundreds of pages of internal records obtained by inewsource under the Public Records Act show city leaders were confident the measure would pass…