After the May 2010 ballot defeat, the district was placed in "fiscal emergency."

The point, according to its backers, would be to stabilize county finances by restricting use of the fund for fiscal emergencies.

The city is struggling through an economic and fiscal emergency unlike anything it has experienced in over a decade.

The city has argued that it should be allowed to suspend the goals in response to fiscal emergencies and other unforeseen events.

But even after the strongest wake-up call, at least one academic had trouble believing the extent of the fiscal emergency.

The park began to deteriorate 30 years ago during the city's fiscal emergencies.

Yet he wisely opposed a balanced-budget amendment that would tie a President's hands in a military or fiscal emergency.

Resolution adopted declaring the City of South Gate in a fiscal emergency.

Davis also borrowed $2.5 million that had to be paid back in eight years to get the city out of fiscal emergency.

"How can you possibly declare a fiscal emergency when you have the ways and means to raise revenue, fairly, through a tax increase?"