Andrew Ward

SAN FRANCISCO — Oakland Mayor Ronald Dellums and civic boosters publicly unveiled three stadium sites they’ve been pitching to Major League Baseball in an attempt to keep the Oakland Athletics in California’s eighth-largest city.

Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire on Wednesday proposed a 2010 supplemental budget that would close a $2.6 billion gap in the state’s 2009-11 biennial general fund budget with deep spending cuts.

The Fresno City Council plans to vote on a proposal to renegotiate the California Grizzlies Minor League Baseball team’s lease at the city’s bond-financed $46 million Chukchansi Park.

The California economy will not resume normal growth until mid-2011, according the latest UCLA Anderson Forecast.

Standard & Poor’s cut the outlook to negative from stable on the Stockton Port District’s BBB-rated revenue bonds this week.

SAN FRANCISCO — The San Diego City Council closed a projected $179 million budget deficit with layoffs of city employees and other measures.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Santa Clara City Council yesterday approved an environmental impact report for a new $937 million football stadium for the San Francisco 49ers, clearing the way for a ballot measure on the partially bond-financed project.

SAN FRANCISCO — A group of California taxpayer advocates is aiming to turn a bad run of news for public retirement plans into a pension reform movement in the nation’s biggest state.

Los Angeles chief administrative officer Miguel Santana last week told the City Council that the nation’s second-largest city faced a $98.1 million budget deficit this fiscal year.

SAN FRANCISCO — Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal this week proposed a 10% cut in spending in the upcoming biennium, as the least populous U.S. state adjusts to lower natural gas prices.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders last week proposed an 18-month budget that would eliminate a projected $179 million deficit in California’s second-biggest city.

SAN FRANCISCO — Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the San Pablo Redevelopment Agency’s Tenth Township Project Area tax-allocation bonds to Baa2 from Baa1, citing a sharp decline in property tax revenue and high exposure to variable-rate debt.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed proposed a freeze in redevelopment spending in California’s third-largest city to prepare for a $75 million state raid on the local budget.

Oregon’s unemployment rate held at 11.3% in October, holding at an eight-month low, according to the Oregon Employment Department.

San Francisco Controller Benjamin Rosenfield this week said that the city faces a general fund deficit of $53 million in fiscal 2009-10.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oakland, California’s eighth-most populous city, may have to sell its convention center or securitize its parking revenues to close a projected $44.3 million general fund deficit over the next two years.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will bring its first Build America Bonds to market as part of a $500 million deal next week.

Montana’s tax revenues lagged budget estimates in the first four months of fiscal 2010, according the Legislative Fiscal Division.

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California this week approved a $350 million subsidy that backers said is crucial to financing the state’s first large-scale desalination plant, which will be located in Carlsbad.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has entered negotiations with the San Diego Chargers in hopes of reaching a stadium deal that would keep the National Football League team in the city.