The proposed 2017-2018 city budget has a line item for fare box revenue.
They budgeted $9,350,000 in 2016.
For 2017 they budgeted $8,000,000.
The preliminary budget number for 2018 is $6,600,000.
Yet the city continues to spend tens of millions to increase capacity.
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Brutus
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Simply put:
Yet their proposed budget indicates spending will actually go down $4.9 million from last year.
How can that be? They predict a decrease in revenues other than property taxes. That’s what happens when our economy slows down.
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Brutus
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There you have it!
Now the city wants to have the authority to issue more bonds (without voter approval) to fund the quality of life projects that were approved half of a decade ago.
Call your city representative today. If they are unavailable leave a message.
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Brutus
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Please, will someone explain to us how the city could answer 123.46 % of the 911 calls that came in within 15 seconds?
Did they answer them twice?
Do they bother to read their own stuff?
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Brutus
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At the Tuesday, July 11, 2017 meeting of city council the city representative from district one spoke about an agenda item that he had placed on the agenda that asked for a council resolution supporting the Paris Climate Accord.
The representative used an extensive slide presentation to support his argument.
Unfortunately the slide presentation was not included with the backup material relating to the item.
City council’s own rules require that these presentations be made available to the city clerk when an item is placed on the agenda. The purpose of the rule is to allow members of the public as well as other city representatives to review the material and prepare comments that they may wish to make about the presentation.
Failure to include the material is one way to stifle opposing views.
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Brutus
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