Local News in Brief : Budget-Cutting Steps
Faced with a $623,000 budget deficit, the Hawaiian Gardens City Council is considering cutting a Sheriff’s Department anti-drug program and taking other steps to balance the budget.
The small city’s budget, still preliminary even though the fiscal year is well under way, showed that revenues continue to suffer from the loss of the lucrative Cooper Fellowship, a bingo operation that provided about $150,000 a year in license fees.
The parlor closed early this year but has since been bought by a local real estate developer who has applied for a city bingo license.
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