{"id":2912,"date":"2020-04-24T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T00:13:25","slug":"san-diego-city-councilman-chris-cate-ensuring-essential-services-remain-funded-in-city-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate Ensuring Essential Services Remain Funded in City Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The City of San Diego is projected to lose $250 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Kevin Faulconer is attempting to offset those losses while at the same time ensuring that essential services such as medical workers and law enforcement are fully funded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The proposed Fiscal Year 2021 budget will be the most difficult budget we have tackled as a Council,&#8221; said\u00a0San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate. &#8220;In this crisis, with millions unemployed, severe drops in tourism and sales tax revenues, and thousands of businesses potentially being shuttered, the City will have to make very difficult decisions with very limited resources.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STATEMENT Re: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityofSanDiego?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CityofSanDiego<\/a> Proposed FY2021 Budget. &quot;We&#39;ll have to make very difficult decisions with very limited resources. This includes determining what are core essential services the City should be providing to its 1.4 million residents.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y5D0Ba8v3Q\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y5D0Ba8v3Q<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TzsI9FLkF7\">pic.twitter.com\/TzsI9FLkF7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Cate (@chrisjcate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisjcate\/status\/1250585956333154304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Councilman Cate was also concerned with the money spent on optional services potentially causing essential ones to go underfunded. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every dollar spent on non-core essential services may impact those basic services relied upon by our communities, and provided by City employees,\u201d explained Cate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also said that he will determine what is essential to the city and ensure that such services are fully funded. &#8220;This includes determining what are the core essential services the City should be providing to its 1.4 million residents,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Over the coming weeks, I will work to ensure the core services we have worked hard to increase for our residents are protected to the maximum extent possible.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/njnationalguard\/49815037422\/in\/photolist-2iTZ66y-2iTUJvE-2iTXuQq-2iTUJ9h-2iTRG7H-2iTQZ5Y-2iTSTGH-2iTTWF7-2iTATAN-2iThMuR-2iTjnaL-2iThMoJ-2iTjn3B-2iThMio-2iTjmXw-2iTezCY-2iSAv88-2iSaikF-2iSaijt-2iSaiiG-2iS5VBj-2iRXwD3-2iRGwPZ-2iREVJK-2iRC9u2-2iRGwtU-2iRC9fQ-2iREVbf-2iRC94C-2iREV34-2iREUYr-2iRFA91-2iREG7v-2iRzCdY-2iRzC68-2iRBgdd-2iRzBMC-2iRBcXW-2iRzyrK-2iRzyeF-2iRwN8v-2iRzxLm-2iRwM34-2iRzwUm-2iRwLHS-2iRBaP2-2iRBaBD-2iRzw4o-2iRBabP-2iRzvCi\">Photo by New Jersey National Guard via Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Nicholas Vetrisek The City of San Diego is projected to lose $250 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Kevin Faulconer is attempting to offset those losses while at the same time ensuring that essential services such as medical workers and law enforcement are fully funded. &#8220;The proposed Fiscal Year 2021&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate Ensuring Essential Services Remain Funded in City Budget - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2912\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"San Diego City Councilman Chris Cate Ensuring Essential Services Remain Funded in City Budget - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by Nicholas Vetrisek The City of San Diego is projected to lose $250 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. 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