The new California state budget reduced spending by $15 billion and potentially includes an additional $2.5 billion in cuts – but it’s not all bad news for Sacramento. Some of the impacts of the state budget on Sacramento were outlined at the City Council meeting Tuesday, most notably problems stemming from changes to redevelopment, realignment and motor vehicle license fees. “The best thing I can say is that it was an on-time budget,” said David Jones, lobbyist for the city of Sacramento. ... mcorker Rhys02 comment-53331 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z What Mr. Jones (is this the same Davey Jones who was a city councilman??) failed to mention is that redevelopment dollars are tax dollars that would go to the city and schools if they were not redirected to SHRA. Given the option between spending over $300,000 to build an individual SRO unit or keeping city pools open and the parks maintained... the question is why weren't redevelopment agencies killed decades ago. Mr. Jones also failed to mention the governor is dissolving CADA. Not only will that put prime downtown real estate back on the tax rolls.. but when one considers CADA only built 800 housing units in its 40 years.. its demise is more good news for Sacramento. Rhys02 2011-07-14T03:16:41Z