Menifee City Council hears sobering 2020-2021 fiscal year budget predictions

COVID-19 weighs heavy on budgets; no police department cuts seen Menifee City Council received sobering proposed budget information for 2020-2021 in a workshop Wednesday, May 13, and subsequent city council meeting Thursday, May 14. Deep revenue losses were projected due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of a Measure DD repeal in the November elections. Rochelle Clayton, Menifee deputy city manager, conducted a preliminary 2020-2021 fiscal year budget and capital improvement plan presentation for the council at the workshop and showed the council how the COVID-19 related closures and stay-at-home orders could seriously affect the city’s initial proposed general fund budget and planned capital improvements. City halts work on initial budget. Before Clayton’s presentation