El Monte : Budget Cut Proposals
The City Council’s budget committee on Tuesday proposed that the city cut salaries, furlough employees or ask them to donate 5% of their income to the city to make up $800,000 of a projected $1.9 million budget shortfall in the new fiscal year.
The committee also proposed that the Police Department cut $100,000, the Fire Department $200,000, and Public Works $400,000, and that the city clerk’s job be downgraded to part time to save $40,000.
The city may resign from the National League of Cities.
The committee proposed increasing revenue by raising towing fees, business license fees and hotel taxes.
Action on the budget committee’s report, introduced at the regular council meeting, was postponed so Council members Ernest Gutierrez, Maria Avila and Tom Thurston, who are not on the committee, could review the recommendations.
The city this week began negotiations with the city employees union, which opposes the recommendations.
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