{"id":791083,"date":"2026-05-12T12:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791083\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:50:15","slug":"letters-city-should-respond-constructively-to-bitter-budget-backlash-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791083\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: City should respond constructively to bitter budget backlash \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cThis budget season, San Diego asked the public to take a first-ever survey. It faced some limitations.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/05\/09\/this-budget-season-san-diego-asked-the-public-to-take-a-first-ever-survey-it-faced-some-limitations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 9<\/a>): The city of San Diego would get more of the public on its side if it took positive steps such as (1) implementing \u201cmanaged competition,\u201d such as putting trash collection out for bid; (2) downsizing city staff and cutting middle management positions; and (3) quit wasting tax dollars on underutilized bike lanes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the taxpaying public sees fees for trash pickup, parking charges in Balboa Park and perhaps the cancellation of December Nights.<\/p>\n<p>Bring back the city manager! The current mayor has never run a business, and it sure shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Frank Laughton, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cThis budget season, San Diego asked the public to take a first-ever survey. It faced some limitations.\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":791084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-791083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116561695763306535","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}