{"id":648631,"date":"2026-05-17T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648631\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:39:08","slug":"letters-containing-pension-costs-key-to-making-city-functional-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648631\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Containing pension costs key to making city functional \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego would further roll back efforts to keep city clean, orderly in mayor\u2019s proposed budget\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/05\/12\/san-diego-would-further-roll-back-efforts-to-keep-city-clean-orderly-in-mayors-proposed-budget\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12<\/a>): So budget cuts will now affect keeping our streets clean, the Union-Tribune reported. Those streets also need $248 million in repairs. Eliminating trash fee revenue projected at $140 million per year will \u201cblow a hole\u201d in the budget. Funding all without raising taxes would cost about $430 million.<\/p>\n<p>The U-T also reported the city\u2019s additional contribution to employee pensions will rise to $563 million. This is an additional payment made every year to fund higher pensions. Proposition B fixed that problem in 2012 but was overturned by the courts. The numbers say it\u2019s not lack of trash fees blowing a hole in our budget, it\u2019s funding plush retirements for city employees creating the need for taxes and fees.<\/p>\n<p>Passing a revised version of Proposition B would be hard, but would be a real, permanent solution. Isn\u2019t the city supposed to prioritize providing residents with services, not employees with increasingly lavish retirement benefits?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Todd Maddison, Oceanside<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego would further roll back efforts to keep city clean, orderly in mayor\u2019s proposed budget\u201d (May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,31755,1767,147,530],"class_list":["post-648631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}