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SAN DIEGO — SAN DIEGO — San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria's once gloomy budget is no more following an influx of new cash that restores reductions to social services and homelessness programs. In fact, there's so much new money that the mayor on Tuesday announced enhanced spending in the $5.
6 billion spending plan that begins July 1. "The final proposed budget released today is a fiscally prudent strategy that protects essential city services and provides additional funding for programming at our libraries and parks, as well as homelessness prevention programs," Gloria said Tuesday. The City Council on Thursday will review the mayor's budget. The council must adopt a budget no later than June 15. Programs are coming back thanks to tens of millions of new dollars that were not identified when Gloria first released a budget a month ago during a chilly morning press conference under cloudy skies. Critics said that initial funding reduced spending for the low-income community and the homeless. Following strong push back, Gloria's office found more than $66 million in new dollars.The additional money fully funds the city's eviction protection, homelessness outreach, and rental-assistance programs as well as the daytime homeless services program at the Neil Good Day Center.Gloria, in delivering his updated budget, said the city has a $172 million deficit. That's up from the $137 million shortfall he said the city had last month. However, city records show his proposed overall budget is nearly a half billion dollars more than the current spending for the fiscal year that ends June 30. If the Democrat-controlled City Council next month passes the mayor’s budget, taxpayer spending will have increased 40% since Gloria took office in December 2020, budget records show. The number of city employees also has increased significantly from 1,572 to a proposed 13,299 workers during his first term.
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