Budget Preview: Furloughs, Private Partnerships

Source: By Ken Draper, City Watch LA (CA), April 10, 2009

The Mayor's budget is due in 10 days. At a press conference on Monday, he offered a glimpse at some of what he will likely offer in the face of a $530 million City budget deficit: city worker sacrifice and possible public-private partnerships that could produce more than a billion dollars.

....... No detail on what those partnerships might look like, but sources have said that privatization of the City's parking elements ... lots, meters, ticketing ... are an example of what the Mayor had in mind.

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