Half Moon Bay is wrestling with unpleasant options for responding to a court ruling that officials say threatens the "very existence of our city government" - a $36.8 million judgment against the city for turning a proposed housing development site into wetlands.
Under the worst-case scenario, officials say, Half Moon Bay would become the first Bay Area city forced to dissolve, and the coastal town's land would become an unincorporated part of San Mateo County.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
California cities dropping like flies. I thought this mess was contained?
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Different meltdowns. Vallejo is suffering from bloated contracts (no fireman in the city made LESS than 100k last year). While housing values (and taxes) soared, they could survive... barely.
Half Moon Bay is facing a whole different problem - they'd be crashing no matter what the economy was like.
Isn't it amazing that Firemen, along with other government employees call themselves "Public Servants"?
Where in the private sector do the servants earn more than their masters?
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