Don't ever fight City Hall

Hey guess what. Amidst all the other crazy crap going on, the 2018 city budget was passed today.  We can barely remember the hearings. The public meetings were all cancelled what with the elections and all.  Wonder if those will ever come back.

Anyway among the interesting items in here are some cryptic comments for LaToya about the $16 million worth of traffic camera revenue that maybe they'll look at replacing, you know, next year or something.

Also there's this regarding the mountain of money the city owed to various people due to court judgements over the years.

Among the other budget highlights is a $2 million allocation for the city's judgments fund, which can be used to pay the city's huge backlog of unpaid judgments. The city owes a total of $41 million to people who have obtained court judgments against the city, some of which have gone unpaid since the 1990s. The $2 million allocation adds to $4 million already being set aside for the judgments.

Deputy Mayor Ryan Berni said that the city attorney's office is preparing to make offers to people with judgments on the list to settle the debt at 50 cents on the dollar, or to receive a 10 percent payment up front and remain on the list.

Yeah well good luck to the "winners" in those cases. Don't ever fight City Hall. Especially if you plan on winning.