The Arcadia City Council approved a $48.7 million budget Tuesday without the significant reductions many other cities are facing due to a downturn in the economy.
A unanimous City Council adopted a "conservative" $42.5 million 1990-91 budget after fine-tuning some expenditures to the Chamber of Commerce and the workers' compensation program. The city has $33.8 million in reserves going into the 1990-91 fiscal year, and expects another $42.6 million in revenues.
City Council recently approved a five-year $34.6 million capital improvement program that will include some refurbishing of City Hall and library facilities, along with a new fire department and preparations for a new police facility.
City Finance Director Alan C. Murphy died of cancer at 34 - just two weeks after receiving a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting and an award for Financial Reporting Achievement by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). Photo
Friday's 6.0 earthquake struck as Art Lerille, 56, and Julie Nickoley, 34, watched horses run in early morning workouts at Santa Anita Park. Nickoley was killed by a plunging 20 foot steel beam and Lerille was injured.