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# Santa Monica City Hall pours over the red ink
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/santa-monica-city-hall-pours-over-the-red-ink/
- Published: 2003-05-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:13:28.000Z
- Author: John Wood
- Tags: Government & Politics, Santa Monica, #archive-import

(Editor’s note: This is the first article in an ongoing series detailing the Santa Monica City Council’s special budget session meetings held this week.) City Hall managers laid out their plans Tuesday on how to save Santa Monica nearly $4 million by cutting the fat in their departments.

Santa Monica faces a projected deficit of $16.1 million for next year and $20.2 million the following year.

Left alone, officials say the deficit will grow to $28.1 million by the fiscal year 2005-2006.

Nine department heads in City Hall on Tuesday laid out their plans to cut nearly $4 million from next year’s budget. More managers went before the City Council on Wednesday to detail their proposals, which mean more cuts are expected within City Hall’s operational expenses.

The bottom line, said City Finance Director Mike Dennis, is the budget proposes to close the deficit by cutting $5.4 million from the general operating budget, $1.6 million from the capital improvements budget, raising an additional $5.2 million in revenues and saving $3.9

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 29, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052903.pdf?ref=smdp.com)