{"id":518083,"date":"2010-04-06T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fb09b2d970c"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:16:28","slug":"villaraigosa-calls-for-shutting-down-some-city-departments-amid-budget-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518083","title":{"rendered":"Villaraigosa calls for shutting down some city departments amid budget crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-01\/51442236.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-01\/51442236.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies &#8212; except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments &#8212; to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city&#8217;s continuing budget crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have to act, and we have to act quickly,&quot; Villaraigosa said at a press conference.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The mayor said he would direct the city&#8217;s chief administrative officer to immediately begin planning to set the shutdown in motion.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Villaraigosa&#8217;s call comes one day after executives with the city&#8217;s Department of Water and Power said they would recommend not sending a promised $73.5-million contribution to the city&#8217;s beleaguered treasury because the City Council recently declined to grant a desired electricity rate increase.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That action prompted City Controller Wendy Greuel to warn that Los Angeles could run out of cash to pay employees and business vendors within four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A full story will follow shortly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Phil Willon at Los Angeles City Hall<\/p>\n<p>Photo: L.A. Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies &#8212; except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments &#8212; to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city&#8217;s continuing budget crisis. &quot;We have to act, and we have to act quickly,&quot; Villaraigosa said at a press conference.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}