The editorial (“City Hall’s grim new norm”) and letters (“Balboa parking fees punish public and should be scrapped,” “When will San Diego leaders finally heed constituents?”) in the Feb. 2 paper gave me hope that the issues that produced budget shortfalls have finally been aired to the public and that changes are coming. Decades of pandering to public employee unions, bloating of bureaucratic staffs, and disregarding voter wishes regarding the outsourcing of local services and limiting pensions have been identified.
It’s interesting to note that the extra cost of the explosion of new “project coordinators and managers” in the last few years is almost equal to the revenue expected from the trash collection fees. Is this a coincidence?
These are all problems attributable to one-party rule. Let’s change this.
— Charles Riley, San Diego