WESTMINSTER is facing budget deficits (Shutterstock).

The Westminster City Council will meet Wednesday night to hear a grim assessment of the city’s financial future.

There will a special study session at 5 p.m. and the regular session at 7 p.m. The first meeting will focus on the revised city budget for 2020-21.

The second meeting will cover such topics such as:

• a ban on short-term rentals of residential properties
• resolution in support of local nail salons and denouncing statements suggesting that the coronavirus originated from nail salons.

In a closed session at 6:30 p.m. the council will discuss the legal challenge by Khai M. Dao of the results of the April 7 recall election.

At the special meeting at 7 p.m., the council will be told:

• that the coronavirus has reduced revenue and increased costs and that the fiscal year 2019-2020 budget is projected to end with a $1 million deficit.
• that the revised 2020-2021 budget does not include any layoffs, but will be balanced through cuts, use of reserves and transfers from capital projects.
• notes that if Measure SS – a one-cent temporary sales tax approved by voters in 2016 – is not renewed when it expires in 2022, the city will face a deficit of $12 to $13 million.

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WITNESSES sought in DUI crashes in Anaheim (APD photo).

Witnesses sought in Anaheim crashes

The Anaheim Police Department is looking for witnesses to the accident pictured above or one that followed it Saturday night involving a silver Mazda CX-9.

According to the APD, a driver suspected of driving under the influence was involved in a crash that killed two people and critically injured another at the intersection of La Palma Avenue and Olive Street. The driver received minor injuries.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call (714) 765-1577.

This is a developing story. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

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