TBS Today, June 25
The Berkeley City Council approved a balanced budget early Wednesday morning — agreeing on most things, but ultimately failing to reach consensus.
In recent months, the city has been working to close a projected $29 million budget deficit through a hiring freeze and a series of mostly one-time strategies that allowed Berkeley to avoid "mass layoffs" in what officials called "a huge win."
Coming into Tuesday night, city officials were in close alignment about the bulk of the budget, with just a few million dollars in allocations that kept them apart in the end.
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Berkeley approves balanced budget in split vote
“We need to take some of the hard decisions now because it doesn’t get any easier,” Councilman Brent Blackaby said Tuesday night.
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