Mayor Todd Gloria Announces Budget Cuts, Eliminates Jobs to Address Deficit

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San Diego is cutting some of the city’s bureaucracy and laying off the city’s highest-paid worker to help close a $258 million deficit, but Mayor Todd Gloria has yet to make emergency cuts to services that some have called for. Gloria announced Tuesday that seven city departments will merge with other departments, saving $5.3 million by eliminating some high-level department head and deputy director positions. The departments that will no longer…

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Mayor Gloria Tries to Save the Strong Mayor

Twenty years ago, the city’s politics were in such chaos that by April 2005, the mayor at the time, Dick Murphy, announced he was going to quit.  Murphy had successfully gotten city voters to approve the switch to the strong mayor form of government, but it would not come into place until 2006. At the start of that year, the mayor would no longer be just a presiding member of the City Council but the actual CEO of the city – the manager of most …

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Mayor Todd Gloria Announces Budget Cuts, Eliminates Jobs to Address Deficit

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria delivers 2025 State of the City Address at City Hall. (Photo by Tessa Balc/Times of San Diego) Mayor Todd Gloria announced $5.3 million in budget cuts and an immediate elimination of 31 city hall executive positions Tuesday, during a conference to address San Diego’s $252.2 million deficit. As a part of the eliminated positions, Gloria said he will take over as city manager and the city’s executive team will answer di…

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San Diego COO axed, departments merged in budget cuts; $258M deficit shrunk by $5M

San Diego mayor Todd Gloria, facing an approximately $258 million budget deficit in the 2025/2026 fiscal year, announced personnel moves Tuesday that he said would save the city $5 million, or 2% of its shortfall.

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Mayor Gloria’s Big Budget Cuts: Eliminate 31 City Jobs — 30 Were Already Vacant

Today -- Tuesday -- was Mayor Todd Gloria's big announcement of a series of big budget cuts that will save the City of San Diego more than $5 million dollars. These cuts were "designed to generate cost savings and minimize service-level reductions," his office said. Here it is -- the big cuts -- I hope you're sitting down -- Gloria announced that 31 city jobs, that's right, 31 FT jobs would be eliminated, including that of Chief Operating Office…

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Mayor Todd Gloria announces $5M in cuts in attempt to balance budget

Thirty-one positions were cut, including COO Eric Dargan. Gloria will assume the role of city manager.