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<br />in the state Assembly."
<br />Oakland Tribune, 512/03, Houses approve
<br />budget bills. "Taking another big step in solving
<br />California's budget crisis, both houses of the
<br />Legislature approved Thursday a package of bills
<br />aimed at saving the state $4.6 billion over the next
<br />two years."
<br />San Francisco Chronicle, 5/3/03, San Jose
<br />to slim down services — Essentials saved in
<br />plan to bridge $77 million gap. "To counter the
<br />long- slumping Silicon Valley economy, San Jose will
<br />close a $77 million budget gap by raising fees,
<br />tapping reserves and trimming services."
<br />San Francisco Chronicle, 5/3/03, The ax
<br />falls in Oakland 'Hard times' budget includes
<br />layoffs, closures. "Oakland city workers and
<br />residents alike will dig into their pockets to keep
<br />essential city services running over the next two
<br />years, under a 'hard times' spending plan proposed
<br />by Mayor Jerry Brown on Friday."
<br />The San Francisco Chronicle, 5/3/03, State
<br />piling up debt to deal with deficit — Nonparti-
<br />san analyst calls the strategy 'poor fiscal
<br />policy. "'I've seen a lot of commercials for credit
<br />counselors, where if you use one credit card to pay
<br />off another, you have a serious need for credit
<br />counseling,' said Sen. Tom McClintock, R -Thou-
<br />sand Oaks, who has broken with others in his party
<br />and opposed rolling over any of the deficit. 'That is
<br />exactly what the state government is now doing.'"
<br />San Francisco Chronicle, 5/3103, Mentally ill
<br />woman can't go 'home' Treatment center's
<br />closure leaves her adrift and alone. "Adrienne
<br />Warren had just gotten out of San Francisco
<br />General Hospital's psychiatric treatment center.
<br />She had a plane ticket and a destination — her
<br />childhood home in Bangor, Maine.
<br />"What the 39- year -old artist, who suffers from
<br />paranoia and delusions, didn't have was anyone in
<br />Maine who wanted her. Now she's back in the city,
<br />the treatment center locked to her, with no place to
<br />call home."
<br />Oakland Tribune, 5/3/03, Brown: Close city
<br />one day a month— Mayor's two -year plan
<br />spares libraries and recreational centers.
<br />"Oakland will shutter city offices one day a month,
<br />close at least one fire station, sell its fireboat and
<br />lose as many as 100 city workers under an austere,
<br />$1.8 billion budget plan for the next two years."
<br />Los Angeles Daily Times, 5/3/03, Budget
<br />realities force special crime unit's disband-
<br />ment. "A detective team responsible for arresting
<br />several serial robbery and burglary suspects is
<br />being disbanded and the money used to put more
<br />patrol deputies on the street, officials said."
<br />Contra Costa Times, 5/3/03, Oakland man-
<br />ager proposes fiscal cuts. "City Manager Robert
<br />Bobb has proposed shutting down the city one day
<br />a month, cutting library hours, reducing police and
<br />fire service, laying off city staffers and increasing a
<br />number of city fees and fines."
<br />Sacramento Bee, 5/3/03, Amid budget woes,
<br />state piles up debt — Pension bonds add to a
<br />wave of loans critics say cost billions in inter-
<br />est. "The planned sale of nearly $2 billion in bonds
<br />to pay pension obligations is a major piece of Gov.
<br />Gray Davis' plan to erase the state's massive deficit
<br />— but it amounts to just a drop in a wave of borrow-
<br />ing already used or proposed for everything from
<br />paying the state's electricity bills to financing health
<br />programs."
<br />San Jose Mercury News, 5/3/03, San Jose
<br />Faces Service Cuts, Fee Increases – Budget
<br />Plan Calls For Loss of 231 Jobs. "San Jose
<br />officials unveiled a budget proposal Friday that
<br />would cut a range of municipal services and raise
<br />fees to close the city's largest deficit in at least two
<br />decades."
<br />San Jose Mercury News, 5/4/03, Cuts
<br />Threaten A Library – Terman Branch Likely
<br />Victim of Tightening. "The city faces a $10
<br />million budget shortfall for the 2003 -04 fiscal year,
<br />and Terman's closing would save $61,750, said
<br />Richard James, deputy director of community
<br />services."
<br />Los Angeles Times, 5/4103, Davis Finds 'No
<br />Good Choices' in Slicing Budget — Noting the
<br />toll taken on the poor and sick, he says, 'No-
<br />body goes into government to do this.' "'I don't
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