BUDGET 2021-22: City emerges from pandemic with strong finances

by Mark McDermott Perhaps no event rang truer to recently retired City Controller Henry Mitzner’s most famed City Hall axiom than the adopted 2021-22 fiscal year budget, which projects the City of Manhattan Beach emerging from an economically devastating time with its economic health somehow better than ever. “When it’s bad out there, it’s good here,” Mitzner always said. “And when it’s good out there, it’s great here.”The City Council unanimously adopted