Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre opposes a push to adopt the full and final San Diego County budget without first filling the vacant South County supervisor seat.
Joel Anderson, an East County Republican, wrote an op-ed last week advocating for adopting the county budget before the election of a supervisor to replace Nora Vargas, who vacated the District 1 seat in January.
Aguirre is among the seven candidates running to replace Vargas in Tuesday’s special election. If no candidate receives a majority vote in the primary election, the top two vote-getters will move on to the special general election on July 1, a day after county budgets are traditionally adopted.
County budgets are traditionally adopted by June 30, a day before the start of the new fiscal year. State law would allow the county to adopt an interim budget to keep services running through the summer, with the full-year budget adopted once a new supervisor takes office.
The current year’s budget is $8.53 billion.
“Sidelining South County on decisions affecting billions of taxpayer dollars for housing, infrastructure, safety and action on the toxic sewage crisis is entirely unacceptable. They can keep the lights on at the county without turning out the lights on all of South County,” Aguirre said in a statement.
“You don’t get to decide for us, without us, and meet the needs of wealthier parts of San Diego County while South County gets shut out. South County families deserve better, and the Board of Supervisors should know better than to spend billions of South County’s taxpayer dollars without giving us a seat at the table.”
Before issuing her statement, Aguirre contacted Chula Vista Mayor John McCann – a Republican opponent in the supervisor race – urging him to join her in publicly opposing Anderson’s stance.
“Regardless of our political differences, we are local mayors, and it’s our duty to unite across the aisle to ensure South County has a voice in these critical budget decisions. South County deserves better – and we can’t let politics as usual silence us.”
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