Statement: “We don’t have any training for our lifeguards,” City Councilman David Alvarez said in a June 6 discussion about the budget on KPBS.
Analysis: Last week, the City Council approved a spending plan whose impacts were starkly different than the imminent disaster described by advocates of a half-cent sales tax increase last fall. City officials largely spared core services from further cuts and even boosted funding for firefighters and lifeguards.
Fact Check: The (Un)Trained San Diego Lifeguards
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