El Segundo prepares to address budget problems

City Manager Greg Carpenter spent much of October telling a horror story of a municipal sort. Carpenter went wherever anyone would have him. He went to the school board, the city council, the chamber of commerce, the Rotary Club, and the Kiwanis. In total, he gave the same presentation 13 times. Armed with graphs, numbers, and a short financial history of the City of El Segundo, Carpenter laid bare a simple choice residents will face in the next year: either local voters can choose to incr