Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Councillor McKay's Suggestion Too Complicated?


Seems To Think Reducing Spending By 5% Is Simple!

If you have watched council for any length of time (you likely need a hobby) you will already know that certain councilors think it is absolutely impossible to reduce the level of spending at city hall by so much as a penny. Given that they have had the $851,000,000 budget since last Dec. and as yet have not made one suggestion to control spending, this lack of creative thinking is distressing.

Councillors Greves and Brennan will always rise to defend continued generous wages at city hall and think it inconceivable there are any efficiencies to be found at city hall. Councillor Greves recently said that the city was not collecting enough money now, and Councillor Brennan can see no sign of taxpayer fatigue.

Councillor McKay Needs To Dumb Down His Message!

When explaining how difficult it was to reduce the budget by 5%, he said it is no more complicated than telling different departments that their budgets are being reduced by 5%, so figure out how to manage. This is not unlike the situation in households all across Nanaimo, who clearly don't have Councillor Brennan's or Greves sympathy.

The idea of telling department heads to figure out how to spend 5% less happens all the time in the real world, but in the make-believe fantasy world inhabited by city managers and most of this council it is simply beyond comprehension.

The only councillors who consistently seem to be looking for ways to save tax dollars are McKay, Bestwick and Kipp The balance of council seem to think that unless they keep endorsing more and more ways to creatively spend YOUR tax dollars, they just aren't doing their jobs.

How long till the next election?? Can't come soon enough!

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