City attorney protests budget cut for his office
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City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo urged the City Council on Tuesday to resist budget cuts that he says would affect gang-prevention programs his office runs in schools.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s budget calls for a 1.5% cut in the city attorney’s $96.4-million budget. “Now is not the time to unilaterally disarm in the fight to keep our kids and our campuses safe,” Delgadillo wrote.
The mayor’s press office replied: “The city attorney’s argument is completely false and misleading. The mayor’s budget adds gang prosecutors to his office. We are simply asking the city attorney to be a better manager of the taxpayers’ money.”
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