Phil Kamlarz, Berkeley’s long-serving city manager, stresses the budgetary challenges Berkeley faces in the city’s annual report, issued this week.

The city works on a biennial budget cycle, but the stresses of the current economic crisis have meant that the budget is subjected to regular revision. At the beginning of this year, in the middle of the current two-year cycle, the city had projected a $16 million deficit for the 2011 fiscal year. That would have required … Continue reading »