Greetings!
In his packed conference room on Thursday, Mayor Sawyer and
Councilmember Combs, with Supervisors Zane and Carrillo attending, the
long-awaited meeting of the minds seemed to occur. Moving through an agenda of reports from staff, the
moment came when Chuck Regalia suggested to Veronica Ferguson that a response
from the County on the City’s cost analysis would be helpful in the next two
months. Prompted by a tribute to
the City’s hard work by Supervisor Carrillo, the County Administrator
identified a few issues which she said needed some collaborative meetings
between key city and county staff.
Agreeing on how welcome the news from the City was, she then suggested that
it might be time for the County to just accept the report, and move on to the
discussion of how we move forward to close the deficit. Councilmember Combs looked across the table and told her "You can't understand how happy hearing those words makes me". I’ve seldom seen so much joy in a
meeting as a result. Mayor Sawyer commented, “After years of discussing this, we
know what not to do.” Responding to Supervisor Zane's insistence that they not delay, plans were
then made to task their staff with clearing up the remaining questions so the Committee
could meet again before summer recesses.
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