Under Mayor Reyes Leadership Fiscal responsibility Is Here
In 2018 When Mayor Reyes and new council members, “Jerry Hernandez and Stevevonna Evans” took office the harsh reality was that we inherited a 6.5 Million dollar structural deficit. In other words, the city was spending 6.5 million dollars more than that was being generated as a city. Right away Mayor Reyes and members of the council starting working with the city manager and members of staff to find creative ways on how we can find long-term and short-term fiscal responsibility to our city’s general fund. Mayor Reyes presented a short-term solution to drop the cannabis tax to 1% and also bring in a cannabis department to audit and regulate compliance to our cannabis industry, and that they did. Year to date Mayor Reyes with the support of members of the council has been able to collect more than 14 million dollars in cannabis excise tax, permit fees, and renewals to the general fund.
“I want to thank Mayor Pro Tem Daniel Ramos, Councilwomen Jeannette, Councilman Keron Jones, and Former Mayor Pro Tem Jerry Hernandez for your support of supporting the ideas presented. We truly all had to think outside of the box to balance our budgets”
Mayor Gabriel Reyes
The last two years’ budgets have been balanced ensuring the residents of Adelanto that fiscal responsibility is here to stay since the selling of the private prison back in 2010 which sold for 28M dollars and used up to 2015. The city budgets were voted for and passed 4-1 in support with the only NO vote coming from Councilwomen Evans.
Others projects we are working on as a team to finalize the annexation into the FP-5 program will save the city another roughly 2 million dollars into our general fund. As well as continuing to bring the much need power and working with Edison to help the cannabis industry to be able to operate at full potential so we can collect the much-needed revenues our city voted on.
