The compromise proposal — which needs at least one more supporter on the nine-member council — would pay for a long list of budget restorations with new cuts to middle managers and police surveillance.
While San Diego community leaders keep lobbying against the mayor’s proposed budget cuts, a quartet of City Council members is proposing a compromise plan to soften cuts to the arts and reverse cuts to libraries and recreation centers.
The compromise would help appease hundreds of residents who complained at a five-hour public hearing Wednesday night about those cuts and some other proposals, including plans to eliminate the Office of Child and Youth Success.
The compromise proposal, which would need at least one more supporter on the nine-member council, would pay for a long list of budget restorations primarily with new cuts to police surveillance efforts and middle managers.
It is being proposed by Councilmembers Sean Elo-Rivera, Henry Foster, Vivian Moreno and Kent Lee. Elo-Rivera, Foster and Moreno represent the city’s lowest-income neighborhoods, all south of Interstate 8.
