{"id":499303,"date":"2026-10-17T14:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499303\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T14:06:10","slug":"same-analyst-who-blew-it-on-trash-fees-endorses-midway-rising-deal-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/499303\/","title":{"rendered":"Same analyst who blew it on trash fees endorses Midway Rising deal \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cMidway Rising transaction termed \u2018fair and reasonable\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/10\/14\/report-midway-rising-transaction-is-fair-and-reasonable-despite-risks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 15<\/a>): I take little comfort in San Diego\u2019s Office of the Independent Budget Analyst declaring the Midway Rising deal \u201cfair and reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After all, this is the same independent budget analyst that reviewed and endorsed the Environmental Services Department\u2019s Cost of Service Study before the City Council approved residential trash collection fees.<\/p>\n<p>Residents were assured the analysis was sound, yet many were stunned by the size of the rates that ultimately emerged. Before city leaders ask taxpayers to trust another complex financial assessment, they should recognize that public confidence has already been weakened.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cindependent\u201d review is only as credible as its results, and recent experience gives residents every reason to approach such assurances with healthy skepticism.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I recommend the city hire an out-of-state firm with knowledge of complex real estate transactions to perform the analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Guerrero, El Cajon\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cMidway Rising transaction termed \u2018fair and reasonable\u2019\u201d (Oct. 15): I take little comfort in San Diego\u2019s Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-499303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","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\/499303","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=499303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}