By Emilie St. John

INGLEWOOD – The City of Inglewood has unveiled its proposed Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget, which shows a $24 million deficit.

The budget also details multi-million dollar deficits in the Parking and Traffic, Sanitation, and Water Funds.

The City typically provides an analysis of the budget from the city manager, but in the proposed FY 2025-2026 budget, they put last year’s analysis in it and included a purported “Distinguished Budget Presentation Award” from the Government Finance Officers Association in an attempt to deflect a reader from digging into the details.

The analysis of the City’s fiscal outlook was copied and pasted from the FY 2024-2025 adopted budget, complete with Mark Weinberg’s signature. Weinberg retired on December 31, 2024, and Luis Atwell was name

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