Officials Discuss City Budget, Possible Cuts
Officials gathered this week to consider the city budget for next fiscal year, and the two law enforcement positions that may have to be eliminated.
The two threatened positions in the city’s Ventura County Sheriff’s Department station would take one officer out of the schools and another out of the North Fillmore storefront.
Steve McClary, deputy city clerk, said officers’ salaries had come from a three-year grant, which also funded a Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer and program for the schools. The DARE officer and program were eliminated when the grant expired in July 1997. Since then, the salaries for the two officer positions now threatened have come out of the city’s general fund.
“The general fund is really tight, and we just don’t have the revenue,” McClary said.
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