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"You're not going to see the cuts and you're not going to see a deficit like you've seen in the last several years," he said. "This is a budget that gets us back to where we were before the recession."
Currently, the county budget is about $25 billion. Sommers said during cheapest plane tickets as possible the worst of the economic crisis, some departments, like Human Resources, and the Treasurer and Tax Collector, saw their funding shrink as much as 30 percent.
"At the end of the day, investing in enhanced accountability measures and other positive changes within the Sheriff's Department isn't simply the right thing to do, but also in the long run a fiscally prudent decision as well," she said.
The increase was primarily cheapest plane tickets as possible state funding for AB 109, also known as realignment, which made county probation officers, instead of state parole officers, responsible for supervising cheapest plane tickets as possible certain felons released from state prison.
Robert Stern, former president of the Center for Governmental Studies, noted that while some local governments, like the cities cheapest plane tickets as possible of San Bernardino and Stockton, ended up filing for bankruptcy during the recession, cheapest plane tickets as possible Los Angeles County emerged relatively intact.
"I've been very impressed with the county because they didn't go on a spending spree during the good times and didn't have to cut employees during the bad times," Stern said. "It shows the board took a very responsible long-term approach and they deserve some credit."
He said because several members of the board have been working together since the 1990s and won't be forced out by term limits for a few more years, they had a "long-term vision," knowing they would be "here to see the outcomes of their actions."
"The reason we've been able to navigate this recession without layoffs and furloughs is because we don't spend in the good years things we can't sustain in the lean years," he said. "We need to continue cheapest plane tickets as possible to sustain that fiscal management, so we don't get into the situations that other cities have gotten into by spending everything they have when they have it."
"Supervisors can afford to be a little bit nonresponsive to the unions, and nonresponsive to the public, and have this even keel (in budgeting) because they really don't have to look over their shoulder for re-election cheapest plane tickets as possible purposes," Stern said. "It's very hard to defeat them, and very few of them run opposed."
Other factors that put the county in the black this fiscal year are the economic recovery, which boosted property and sales tax revenues; a stellar credit rating that allowed it to borrow money at lower interest rates; and an "efficiency initiative" that saved $255 million through such common sense measures cheapest plane tickets as possible as programming office lights to turn off at night, Sommers said.
"We've taken a lot of cuts in the last four to five years, during this recession, and a lot of damage was done to the operations of the county," he said. "We need to get busy about restoring services."
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