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For the most recent document detailing San Bernardino city salaries please download the file.  The file is provided here in two forms. Choose from either the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet for sorting and drilling into the detail or the PDF Version for easy viewing, reading or emailing. Get Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF files.

Every spring, City Staff present an annual budget to the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San Bernardino. The annual budget serves as the City's financial plan for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1st and ends June 30th. This annual budget document is the full version presented and adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San Bernardino. The budget document is divided into fourteen sections and from the city web site requires approximately 50 separate downloads to compile a complete book.

Rather than taking time to click ALL the links and try to make sense out of the document names, numbering and careless organization, I have for the convenience of the public and in my efforts to push for greater amounts of government transparency and accountability in the City of San Bernardino compiled the information into one simple download.

To download the file click:  Budget Book Dowload

To download the Council agenda item click:  Budget Back Up Download

If you have any questions regarding the annual budget and/or the processes for completing the annual budget please contact the City of San Bernardino - Finance Department at 909-384-5242.

I hope interested and concerned people who desire smaller government, lower taxes and less government intrusion into personal freedoms take a quick look at how our money is being spent.  San Bernardino has one of the highest tax rates in the state and at some point a reasonable person should ask, why?

I read in this story, Jim Morris, San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris' son and chief of staff, said the mayor fully supports Chiang's order.

"Frankly, the city of Bell has undermined the people's confidence," he said. "Our salaries for elected officials, at least the mayor and council, are in the (city) charter and we believe there should be complete transparency on that."

I have spoken at many San Bernardino's public council meetings requesting salary information for ALL city employment classifications not just mayor and council.

Frankly, it's really easy to be completely transparent with information that is already public knowledge, but what about the numbers for the rest of the public employees pay classifications?

These numbers have not been made available, after months of requests.

For Jim Morris to state on behalf of Pat Morris (mayor) that he supports and wants complete transparency on the issue is a JOKE! Otherwise they could have and would have provided this information when it was ask for by me on any number of occasions. I have been asking for this information well before the Bell story broke.

If the mayor of San Bernardino truly supports the notion of complete transparency then I expect to get questions about salary classification pay scales answered completely, immediately and without exceptions.

I don't figure this will happen any time soon as I don't believe he is speaking the truth on this issue. It is more their unwillingness, the unwillingness of the city manager and other department heads that intentionally keep this information from the public regardless of my numerous requests.

The old saying goes, "I'll believe it when I see it."

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