Why Fresno leaders will still head to backroom to privately negotiate budget

Why Fresno leaders will still head to backroom to privately negotiate budget

Even though a recent court ruling last month declared the City of Fresno illegally negotiated the city budget in private, city leaders still plan to go into the backroom to reconcile another record-breaking budget this week.  That’s because the way city officials violated state law — by claiming the Fresno City Council’s budget committee was exempt from a state mandate to meet in public — was at the heart of the two-plus-year lawsuit. City leade…