500 city officials and business leaders turned out this morning for the Chamber of Commerce’s annual State of the City Breakfast. So what is the state of the city of Santa Barbara? Business Woman Award Winner Joanne Funari summed it up in one sentence… “the positive is that the negatives are getting smaller.”
What are the two biggest challenges facing the city of Santa Barbara in 2012, according to City Manager Jim Armstrong? (answers below)
1. The Potential Loss of Redevelopment Funds
2. Skyrocketing Employee Pension Costs
1. Deal with it. We’ll all be waaayyyy better off when the City no longer has tax dollars to spend to purchase housing for the homeless.
2. Deal with that too. Just cut their retirement benefits significantly…….
Welcome to oxymoronville! Maybe things will be more radically moderate with the elections less than two television seasons away…