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“You could end up in a situation where the fund is up against the cap for several years running and there builds up a large reserve.”
Jean Ross
“We're looking at something that is one step above a bare-bones budget,”
“If there is a deep drop in revenues, it is very difficult to accumulate substantial enough reserves to keep spending at the maximum allowed by the cap.”
“The longer I look at the measure, the more I think I don't really know what would be happening.”
“You had both Republicans and Democrats saying we need to balance the budget. How can we afford to do this? It really did come down to a matter of priorities. I think the process worked.”
“A lot of people are struggling to get by.”
“The bottom-line difficulty is that many low-income folks don't have money to save, even if they desperately want to.”
“There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.”
“What's troubling about the economic recovery that we've been in is that all of the traditional indicators of employment, household income and poverty levels are lagging behind prior expansions.”
“We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.”
