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County may sue bankrupt San Bernardino
Posted: Nov 28, 2012 4:04 PM by Associated Press
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - County supervisors have voted to join the long list of San Bernardino creditors and may sue the bankrupt city.
The city 60 miles east of Los Angeles filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in August after learning it faced a $46 million budget shortfall.
The county says San Bernardino owes $1.5 million in tipping fees from trash collected by the city's waste department and taken to the county's Rialto dump.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/UYTF46 ) says the supervisors voted in closed session Tuesday to seek bankruptcy court debt clarification and to sue to get the money if necessary.
The City Council approved an austerity plan earlier this week that slashes more than $26 million in spending and freezes debt payments.
The austerity plan is a requirement in the federal bankruptcy process.
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Information from: The Press-Enterprise, http://www.pe.com
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