Cuts are coming, as the City of San Diego is estimating a 120-million-dollar shortfall for the 2027 Fiscal Year Budget.
As a result, Mayor Todd Gloria says there will be cuts leading up to the new budget. An independent review finds the city’s staffing has grown four times faster than the population.
The analysis also found the city has over projected its revenue since 2020. That’s left a one billion dollar backlog of deferred maintenance, and nearly eight billion dollars in project infrastructure spending.
The study was released last week by the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, which was founded in 1945 as a non-partisan, nonprofit civic watchdog…