Exiting Mayor Foster Discloses He'll Release City Mgm'ts Proposed Budget With His Recommendations By Approx. "This is my last chance to craft the budget and I'm going to take that," Mayor Foster said in response to a question from the audience of about two dozen people the Los Altos library's community room.
Mayor Foster said he expects to receive the City Manager's proposed budget on July 3 [it is due under the Charter July 1] and said "I feel it's incumbent on me to take one last shot at trying to keep the city on a sound financial footing." He added, "I think [incoming Mayor] Robert [Garcia] is dedicated to that. I think that's his highest priority to keep the fiscal discipline that's been exercise going..."
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(July 2, 2014, 6:45 p.m.) -- Speaking at Councilman Patrick O'Donnell's monthly "Chat with Pat" community meeting, Mayor Bob Foster (whose term of office expires on July 15) disclosed that he plans to release city management's proposed budget to the City Council (and thus to the public) with his recommendations by the middle of next week (meaning approx. July 9.)
