The City Council approved a $57 million budget for 1993-1994 which closes a $2.1 million deficit with $266,000 in increased revenues, $880,000 in cuts and $1 million of the City's $5.6 million in reserves.
The City Council approved a $57 million budget for 1993-1994 which closes a $2.1 million deficit with $266,000 in increased revenues, $880,000 in cuts and $1 million of the city's $5.6 million in reserves.
The new City Council has several options to try to fill the projected $2.2 million general fund budget gap. Options include dipping into city reserves, raising taxes and fees, salary cuts and layoffs.
Shortly before the city cut $400,000 in salaries and programs to help close a nearly $1 million budget shortfall, the city's managers and supervisors asked the City Council to consider giving them what they termed long-overdue raises.
Survival-of-the fittest strategies have swept City Hall, where employees fearful of looming budget cuts are waging campaigns against their colleagues and other departments in an effort to protect their jobs.
The Arcadia Board of Education passed a $32.5 million budget for 1993-4 with no cuts in classroom services. The budget included $22 million for staff salaries and $1.5 million for books and supplies.
The City Council increased the bed tax, charged to customers staying in a hotel, from 8% to 10%. The increase will generate an estimated $140,000 a year, which would help to close the city's projected $2.2 million shortfall in the 1993-94 budget.
The City Council approved a $25.7 million general fund budget after resolving a $418,000 projected shortfall and agreeing to the closure of City Hall on alternate Fridays.
More than 400 people crammed City Hall and an adjacent outside courtyard Tuesday, as City Council wrestled with ways to slash $2 million from its annual budget.
The City Council approved a $3.4 million new fire station project bid by Merco Construction Engineers in Camarillo. The building will cost 20% more than originally estimated.
William Woolard, 50, Arcadia Planning Director for 22 years, resigned at the recommendation of City Manager Don Duckworth and a 4-1 City Council vote, with Robert Harbicht opposed. Woolard was asked to leave because of departmental reorganization, Duckworth said.
Santa Anita Park will auction off 10 paintings by Sir Alfred J. Munnings worth an estimated $10 million. They will be sold by Sotheby's New York City auction house on Dec. 1, 1998.
Notice of Public Hearing before the Arcadia City Council on June 20, 1995. Summary by fund for 1995/6 and 1996/7 Proposed Budget is shown in tabular form.