The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the City of Anaheim’s finances, and left the Southern California city with an anticipated $114 million budget deficit for the 2020–2021 fiscal year.
“The revenue side of our budget collapsed with the downturn,” Anaheim’s chief communications officer Mike Lyster told The Epoch Times. “We are reliant upon visitors who stay in hotels to visit Disneyland, our convention centers, or even to see their favorite sports teams play. None of this has happened since March.”
