{"id":793389,"date":"2026-05-13T12:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793389\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:11:12","slug":"letters-proposed-end-to-december-nights-funding-spurs-dismay-anger-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793389\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Proposed end to December Nights funding spurs dismay, anger \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cDecember Nights would be gutted by mayor\u2019s proposed budget cuts\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/05\/07\/december-nights-would-be-eliminated-by-mayors-proposed-budget-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 7<\/a>): It\u2019s inconceivable that the mayor can\u2019t find the money to fund December Nights at Balboa Park, especially now that the city charges for parking there.<\/p>\n<p>The growing sentiment is that Todd Gloria is intentionally targeting budget items that city residents, especially children, value \u2014 December Nights, library and recreation center hours \u2014 to set the stage for a ballot measure in the future to raise taxes to restore them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tamara Hurley, Scripps Ranch<\/p>\n<p>This new budget cut proposed by Mayor Gloria is another of the \u201cdeath by a thousand cuts\u201d to our city.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Gloria and the City Council spent $4.5 million on a \u201cconsultant\u201d for the scheme to impose new trash fees and $3 million for consultants to evaluate taking over the power grid from SDG&amp;E, which would never work out, given how incompetently the city is governed.<\/p>\n<p>We need to admit that San Diego is so far in debt that using all these little \u201ccuts\u201d will not solve the problem, and that the only solution is to declare bankruptcy, as other California cities have successfully done. This will bring in independent outside experts who will do the necessary restructuring without political pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jack Resnick, La Jolla<\/p>\n<p>As a native San Diegan, here is my solution for the painful and destructive city budget proposal:\u00a0Cut the salaries of Mayor Gloria and all members of the City Council until this crisis is resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because they are obviously not doing their jobs as their decisions are ruining our quality of life in this beautiful city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laura Impastato, Normal Heights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cDecember Nights would be gutted by mayor\u2019s proposed budget cuts\u201d (May 7): It\u2019s inconceivable that the mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793390,"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-793389","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\/116567204812303692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793389","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=793389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}