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San Bruno City Council Meeting 07-28-09 12. Council Comments
B
B
Finally,
the
state
has
approved
a
budget
much
more
time
went
into
the
effort
that
has
occurred
at
the
state
level.
I
would
still
say
much
less
deliberative
to
actual
strategic
analysis
of
the
dimension
of
the
situation
in
the
in
the
need
to
address
the
situation
on
a
long-term
basis,
much
less
of
that
deliberate
focus
than
the
city
and
other
cities
up
and
down.
B
That
budget,
as
anticipated,
includes
serious
additional
taking
from
City
revenues.
My
emphasis
that
emphasize
that
point
carefully,
because
I
believe
that
the
news
media
has
broadly
reported
this,
but
I
think
it
is
absolutely
essential
that
residents
understand
that
these
are
not
monies
that
are
sitting
around
waiting
for
this
state
just
simply
to
pick
them
up
and
deploy
them.
These
are
revenues
that
are
owned
by
and
necessary
for
their
intended
purposes
at
the
local
level.
These
are
very
deliberately
and
very
directly
city
funds.
B
I'm
going
to
ask
the
finance
director
to
give
you
a
brief
overview
of
what
this
budget
intends
in
the
terms
of
taking
city
revenues.
I
would
just
like
to
make
one
more
brief
comment,
and
that
is
that
it
was
the
situation
that
evolved
with
a
budget
that
has
now
been
signed
was
not
as
extreme
as
we
feared
and
most
specifically,
a
provision
for
taking
highway
users
tax
or,
what's
typically
known
as
gas
tax
revenues
in
their
full
amounts
for
two
years.
C
Vice
mayor
members
of
the
council,
the
governor
today
did
sign
the
state
budget
after
cutting
an
additional
489
million
dollars
from
that
what
the
legislature
had
approved
last
Friday,
we
know
fairly
well
the
impact
of
the
state
budget
on
local
governments,
although
the
legislature
still
is
going
to
need
to
pass
in
the
south
in
the
next
several
weeks,
a
number
of
clean
up
bills,
so
something
adverse
might
come
from
that,
but
we,
but
we
anticipate
that
the
the
budget
is
signed,
is
relatively
clear.
As
a
city
manager
indicated.
C
The
outcome
is
not
good
for
cities
and
redevelopment
agencies,
but
again
without
the
actions,
probably
the
League
of
California
cities,
it
could
have
been
worse.
The
state
had
a
twenty
six
point:
three
billion
dollar
budget
gap
that
they
were
dealing
with,
and
the
budget
includes
cuts
of
8.8
billion
dollars
for
education,
2.2
billion
dollars
for
Health
and
Human
Services
and
1.2
billion
reduction
for
corrections,
parks
and
other
state
agencies.
C
A
total
of
three
point:
four
billion
dollars
is
being
taken
from
local
governments,
from
cities,
counties
and
special
districts,
and
again
somewhat
repeating
what
the
city
manager
said
that
the
state
has.
No
right
to
this
money,
except
for
a
small
part
of
borrowing
from
proposition
1a,
the
state
doesn't
even
have
a
claim
to
this
money.
C
Tell
us
how
you
really
feel
as
Willie
as
Willie
Sutton,
the
Bandit
said
when
asked
why
he
robs
banks.
He
said
because
that's
where
the
money
is
and
what
the
state
is
really
doing
is
taking
this
money
from
local
governments,
because
they
can
so
in
the
the
Mercury
News
had
a
had
a
depiction,
an
illustration
of
a
bridge,
bridging
the
budget
gap
and
they
indicated
of
the
26
billion
dollars
that
the
state
needed
to
fill
about.
13
billion
of
that
came
from
legitimate
cuts.
C
There
were
three
point:
five
billion
was
accounting
gimmicks
and
about
13
billion
was
what
they
said
was
was
new
revenues,
including
this,
this
3.4
billion
dollars
from
local
governments,
so
they're
calling
it
new
revenue.
This
illustration
called
it.
New
revenue
coming
to
the
state
new
revenue
sort
of
implies
ongoing
revenue,
specifically
for
San
Bruno
in
borrowing
property
tax,
as
provided
in
proposition
1a.
C
Eight
percent
of
the
city's
property
tax
really
amounts
to
a
little
over
four
hundred
thousand
dollars.
The
State
Department
of
Finance
has
calculated
the
borrowing
by
actually
including
sales
tax
and
vlf
money
that
they've
transformed
into
property
tax
because
of
the
triple
flip
and
I
think
at
best
you
could
say
this
is
a
very
generous
definition
that
benefits
the
state.
C
The
agency
had
discussed
several
months
ago,
the
possibility
of
repaying
the
equipment
reserve
monies
due
as
a
strategy,
perhaps
to
protect
this
taking
by
the
state.
At
the
end
of
the
day.
For
a
couple
of
reasons,
we
didn't
do
that
this
would
have
had
no
impact
on
the
formula
and
the
taking
the
state
is
doing
that.
C
C
D
The
chair,
first
of
all,
I,
think
retirement
doing
you
well,
it
was
good
presentation.
Thank
you.
I
was
going
to
say
there
was
a
conference
Colin
that
you
could
do
this
afternoon
to
listen
to
some
of
the
governor's
finance
folks,
which
I
called
in
to
about
a
thousand
plus
people
in
the
state
did,
and
they
have
a
little
different
spin
on
it,
of
course,
but,
interestingly
enough,
that
prediction
was
that
in
the
fourth
quarter
of
this
year
there
might
begin
in
their
mind
to
see
a
turnaround.
D
However,
oddly
enough,
they
wanted
to
remind
everybody
that
the
budget
still
is
entire
straight,
that
as
we
enter
the
2010-2011,
that
we
will
begin
at
the
state
level
at
a
78
billion
dollar
deficit
already.
So,
where
we've
made
headway
now
in
their
mind
again
we're
still
far
off
and
we
are
not
out
of
it
yet
and
that's
according
to
the
governor's
finance
folks
at
a
conference
call
after
three
o'clock
this
afternoon.
So
there's
still
as
problems
for
the
state,
and
this
is
just
the
start.
A
Down
the
road
with
the
with
the
state
of
California,
the
higher-ups
I
mean
I
was
always
of
the
understanding.
When
you
borrowed
money
came
from
entities
that
could
lend
money
and
like
banks
or
savings
and
loans
or
whatever
and
cities,
don't
have
it.
It's
a
real
unfortunate
situation
because
they're
just
not
doing
their
job
so
closed
session.
We
will
be
going
into
closed
session
after
this
adjournment.
I,
don't
believe,
there's
going
to
be
reported
election
tonight,
no
okay,
prior
to
a
German
tonight,
I
do
have
some
very
sad
news.
A
We
lost
recently
one
of
our
members
of
one
of
the
members
of
our
city,
family,
Dennis,
cheliya,
cable,
technician
with
san
berdo
cable
department,
passed
away
in
july,
fourteenth
dennis
serve
the
city
of
san
bruno
is
a
valuable
member
of
the
cable
departments
team
for
14
years.
He
embraced
new
technology.
He
assumed
his
duties
with
enthusiasm
and
dedication.
He
made
significant
contributions
in
the
development
of
the
cable
head
end,
which
is
the
heart
of
the
cable
operation
and
was
the
go-to
person
for
all
the
cable
head
and
related
issues.
A
He
demonstrated
care
and
concern
for
his
fellow
employees
and
the
customers
he
served.
Dennis
always
carried
a
big
smile,
a
smile
as
big
as
himself
and
was
well-liked
by
those
who
knew
him.
His
loss
leaves
a
big
hole
in
our
cable
operation.
In
fact
our
city
family,
but
mostly
in
our
hearts,
he
will
be
sorely
missed.
I
ask
you
to
say
a
special
prayer
for
Dennis
tonight
and
his
young
family
and
I
would
like
a
moment
of
silence
in
his
memory.
Please.