CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 21, 1997 | STEVE CARNEY
The City Council breezed through the 1997-98 budget because most of the work had been done three months earlier. When Proposition 218 passed last fall, it created a $2.8-million shortfall in the city's $22.7-million budget by effectively outlawing the city's lighting and landscaping taxing district, which paid for beach, park and street-light maintenance. In February, the city staff drew up a budget saving $1.