Fiscal Analysis of San Diego County

The San Diego County Taxpayers Association Staff released a Financial Health Analysis of the County of San Diego, a comprehensive review of the County's fiscal trajectory from Fiscal Year 2011 to the present. The report documents a government that, while currently balanced on paper, is drifting toward a structural deficit -- driven by personnel growth that far outpaces population, escalating Health and Human Services costs, collapsing capital investment, and a heavy dependence on state and federal dollars the County does not control. The analysis warns that federal and demographic pressures already on the calendar will become unsustainable unless the County acts ahead of them.