Mayor Adrian Fenty¹s proposed unfunded directive that District agencies pay for personnel and procurement services out of pocket will leave departments holding the bag and the fiscal 2008 budget at least $30 million in the red, the chairman of the D.C. Council said Tuesday.

“Dr. Gandhi, you are the one person who we look to as the independent CFO to certify whether or not we have a balanced budget,” Council Chair Vincent Gray wrote Tuesday in a letter to Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi. “I know this budget is not balanced at the present time.”