City Council Presented With Whac-A-Mole Budget
New Port Richey plans to use reserves to avoid millage increases, but it seems each time a revenue hole in the proposed $16 million spending plan is plugged, an unexpected expenditure pops up.
For local governments, balancing budgets in an era of fiscal stress can be like playing Whac-A-Mole. Pound out a solution to one revenue hole, and an unexpected expenditure pops up. The only option is to continue beating away until the buzzer blares Oct. 1, when the new budget takes effect. So it is with the New Port Richey City Council, which learned Tuesday that there are solutions to plug an $800,000 deficit in the city's proposed $16 million general fund Fiscal Year 2012 budget, but it will take luck and timing to do so without raising millage rates. The three-and-a-half hour presentation on the 292-page spending plan rehashed old quandaries while introducing several new potentially significant problems, including an unanticipated $400…
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Stephen
9:36 am on Thursday, July 14, 2011
Here is a great editorial out of Boynton Beach by the Palm Beach post on the fact that RLC are NOT being used for safety. ONLY MONEY! http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/editorials/boynton-beach-comes-clean-1605011.html FIGHT THE SCAM! Ban the CAMS! LET THE PEOPLE VOTE SOMETHING ATS DOES NOT WANT! They are actively trying to DENY the vote (DENY DEMOCRACY) in WA state towns and for now have … more ›