VENTURA : Port District to Cut $175,000 in Budget
The Ventura Port District is scheduled tonight to approve $175,000 in cuts from the district’s $2.07-million revised budget.
“It’s not catastrophic,” said district General Manager Richard Parsons.
No one will be laid off and most of the savings will come from allowing vacant positions at the Harbor Patrol to remain unfilled, Parsons said.
“We’ll have shifts when we only have one person on duty,” he said. “We don’t like to do that, but we’re being forced into it.”
Other cuts will come from reducing landscape maintenance and administrative expenses, he said.
When the state budget was passed in September, lawmakers took some property tax revenues from special districts to help make up for the budget shortfall. Ventura Port District’s cut amounted to about $175,000, Parsons said.
Because the district’s budget was passed before the state budget was adopted, a revised budget must be acted on to accommodate the changes, he said.
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