While tax revenue is increasing as the economy improves, most of the added income is going to cover increases in city employee pay, pension costs and healthcare expenses, said City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, a high-level budget official.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, a high-level budget official, said his office is not counting on any of the money that could be produced by an electric rate hike.
However, city Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, a high-level budget official who recommended the pension changes, said in an interview he was hopeful the board would side with the city in the end. .
At an event hosted last week by the National Defense Industrial Association, a trade group, Lewis heard from high-level budget personnel at the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps about their 2009 priorities.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., in the heat of the high-level budget deliberations, told Republicans that their intransigence over taxes was a matter of ideology, not economics.
Instrumental in those recovery efforts was City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, the high-level budget analyst who reports to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the 15-member City Council.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, the high-level budget official who recommended the pension changes, welcomed Thursday's report and called the pension cuts "a significant part" of the city's effort to reduce a long-standing deficit.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana, the high-level budget adviser, said the city has previously relied on such borrowing to resolve especially expensive legal cases, such as ones filed in 2007 over allegations of police misconduct at an immigration rally in MacArthur Park.
"What you've got going on here is a high-level game of budget chicken, in which both sides are waiting to see who's going to screw up and be blamed for having crossed that line," said Leon E. Panetta, who was budget chief and chief of staff in the Clinton administration.
In the Obama administration, Mr. Lew has served as chief of staff, budget director and a high-level State Department official.
Richard Ravitch, who won an emergency appointment as New York's lieutenant governor during the 2009 budget impasse, announced a high-level new project Thursday to untangle the finances of the states and shine a light on their hidden debts.
