Good, that cut the budget gap. Now the City Council can turn its attention to the remaining $5,999,900.

How about cutting some of the programs that the city put in place for various non-profits and special interest groups that would be highly debated if the program stood on it own? Each year the City Council incrementally adds more social programs, which at the time, don't seem so big, but taken together are considerable. For example afterschool programs, Cuesta Park Tennis Club, Fire Department's Hazmat, senior lunch open to all at the Senior Center, etc., etc., etc....We need more programs for the Earth!