San Jose Budget Deficit

The City Council has approved Mayor Chuck Reed's recommendation that the City Manager and the Executive Director of the Redevelopment Agency develop a 3 Year General Fund Structural Deficit Elimination Plan for City Council consideration. Part of that plan includes Stakeholder Outreach. The City Council approved the Stakeholder Group which relies on the experience and expertise of Labor, Employees, Businesses, Nonprofits, Taxpayers and Neighborhood Associations to review the Priorities developed by the City Manager's General Fund Structural Deficit Task Force and the Mayor's Budget Shortfall Advisory Group

This process is crucial for San Jose's future. It is important that San Jose take a sensible and even keeled approach to solving the City's budget crunch. With a $200 million+ budget deficit, significant cuts will be made and new sources of revenue will be needed. The responsibility of taking San Jose out of the red and into the black should be responsibility of the community at large, not individual sectors.

San Jose will be conducting a series of meetings with a task force to come to an agreement on a 3 year plan to eliminate the structural budget deficit. The first meeting will be on April 21st, from 6pm to 9pm, at City Hall. Click here to get the agenda and schedule for upcoming meetings.