Item 11.2 on the regular agenda of the March 25, 2014 city council meeting is a triumph of fact over fiction.
Decrease General Fund appropriations of various City departmental budgets in the total amount of $5,864,151 as per the attached schedule.
Of course there is no schedule attached. In fact the agenda item is listed as “Discussion and action to approve the following budget transfers”. City council’s own rules require that the backup material for an item like this must be posted when the item is place on the agenda. In this case that was last Thursday. Rules are evidently for you and me, not for our city government.
Good news
The unfortunate good news is that city staff is taking steps to take money out of the budget. They should. My guess is that revenues have not met the levels they told us they would when they passed the budget. Many of us could see that coming.
What departments will be cut? If the required backup material was made available we would have had an opportunity to know in advance. As it is we will have to sit back and watch them cut without regard to public input.
By the way, do you remember this February statement from our city manager?
“All of our revenues are meeting our projections so I don’t know what they’re talking about”
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
“All of our revenues are meeting our projections so I don’t know what they’re talking about”
Well, not the stadium by $14MM give or take, Since when has that bothered City Hall? Just put it on the property tab.
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