Today, the City Council will receive its Midyear Report on the Budget for the Fiscal Year of 2009/10 and one component is gaining a lot of attention. As reported on CBS 13 News yesterday, the council will consider (as detailed in the report) expanding the current brownout program set in the Sacramento City Fire Department…
Tomorrow evening, City staff will conduct a FY09/10 budget development workshop with the Mayor and City Council discussing strategies to address the growing gap between budget revenues and expenditures, and receive direction and input. The workshop will start at 6pm in the City Hall Council Chambers. If you can’t make it to see the meeting…
Assemblymember Dave Jones and the Sacramento Coalition for Working Families are partnering to host a free tax preparation workshop for families whose household income in 2008 was $42,000 or less. The workshop is free for those who are eligible. The workshop will take place this Saturday, January 31st from 9am to 3pm at Grant High…
By now you may have heard about the proposal to move Goodwill into the old Borders facility in North Natomas. The story first broke on Natomas Buzz last Wednesday with a followup by Joe Sacramento the next day. KCRA 3 did a feature story on the issue (as posted above). Many Natomas Buzz visitors –…
According to the Sacramento Bee, the Twin Rivers Unified School District is having financial trouble and needs to lay off roughly 150 employees to ease the pain; however, the district cannot let these staff go due to provisions in the California education code. The code prohibits newly unified districts from laying off support staff for…