{"id":449009,"date":"2026-08-31T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449009\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:08:28","slug":"vosd-podcast-mike-zucchet-wants-to-cut-city-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/449009\/","title":{"rendered":"VOSD Podcast: Mike Zucchet Wants to Cut City Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this episode of the VOSD Podcast, host Scott Lewis sits down with Michael Zucchet, general manager of the San Diego Municipal Employees Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They get into pension underfunding and the failed 2024 sales tax measure. (Oh yeah, this is a very nerdy episode.) They also unpack a heated debate over whether San Diego\u2019s workforce is bloated \u2014 as some critics claim \u2014 or stretched thin by hundreds of new parks and services added since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on the show: They also get into labor costs and pensions, a trash-bin \u201clid lifter\u201d mandate and questions over the Port Commission\u2019s handling of Harbor Island.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this episode of the VOSD Podcast, host Scott Lewis sits down with Michael Zucchet, general manager of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-449009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}