Is that a very long way of saying “I went broke because I won the lottery?”

Urban sprawl red herring aside, look at Vallejo’s post BK budget

Police reduce from 155 to 92 officers.
Fire reduce from 9 companies to 5. That’s 122 to 85

Their budget is 28.6% pension and health benefits for current and existing retires

40% of salaries and benefits are benefits and works comp.

Next years projection calls for the pension piece to increase from $11.7 to $13.7 million

That’s on a $65.4 million budget To keep it balanced they’re projecting a 40% reduction in health benefits and a 25% cut to retiree health.

Why Rthey thought they could give them away is immaterial

http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.gov