To me, the more I research, the more it is becoming apprent – that the solution to a Structurally Dysfunctional City Budget is not Either To RAID the Public Employee’s Earned by hard work Pension & Health Benefits – or the MILKING of our Tax Payers in order to continue to sustain this dysfunctional feeding to the deceased “bottomless bucket” of same either greed, ambitions or neglected inefficiencies.

We’ve got to end the Tug Of War between all the real stakeholders, equally been manipulated into sharing the role of being the “Targets” so the same for the same continues “To Do Business As Usual”.

This critical time is forcing us for a different type of opportunity for the 4 prongs of this system that has held our dysfunctional city by taking advantage of short term gains or short sightedness – to come to table, all clean & open and all at the same time to work together with spirit of cooperation in spite of the no longer working attitude of residual perceptions and out dated opinions of the past.

The 4 CRITICAL PPRONGS are:
1) City Management & Legislative body:
Mayor, Council[15], CAO, Chief Legislative Analyst, Controller, DA, all various Commission Boards & GM’s of operating departments
2) Business Community – Through BizFed & Various Chamber of Commerces
3) Public Tax Payers – Through NC’s & LANCC) Public Tax Payers – Through NC’s & LANCC
4) Public Sector Employees – through the Union Community

In this part of Civilized world – some of us need to RENEW our knowings of and about each other through open conversations while having the understanding there are varied point of views that combined would produce fundamental sustainable solution.

Resolving this City’s vast extent of systematic dysfunction necessitates that we efficiently utilize all of our resources of expertize from all the 4 prongs. Seasonal shifting of the burden of a dysfunction from one leg of the prong to another definitely ends with full collapse for the whole.