Council Set Priorities For Staff
After about 30 minutes of waltzing around the mulberry bush city council agreed to support 8 priorities as outlined by city staff. The object of the exercise was to give staff some direction in preparing a budget to spend your tax dollars for next year.
The preliminary estimates are for a nearly 6% tax increase for 2011 as things stand at the moment.
None of the priorities adopted by council included items such as determining what levels of tax increases are going to be sustainable over the next 5 years, nor was there any direction to look at areas of staffing which could produce some tax savings.
After much discussion about concern over having to wrestle with the impending tax increases next year, with barely a sideways glance the council agreed to spend $40,000 of YOUR tax dollars on a bike lane on fourth St.
That single decision is a clear example of the mindset of council and staff which says that unless they are spending money, they are not working. It seemed it never occurred to them to save the $40,000 rather than making a bike lane which goes from nowhere to nowhere.
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