Oh, Shucks.
Doc:Â Budget-SF-2018
Imagine that, a mayor managing a budget that invests in it’s people and customer service. GET OUT! I have often argued with people that there is no where in the US Constitution, State Constitution or City Charter that requires our city to spend capital on entertaining us.
Running a city is pretty simple. You take in tax dollars and you spend it on maintaining the city;
• Public Safety
• Planning and Zoning
• Infrastructure and Public utilities
If there is money left over we either refund it (LOL) or we spend it on parks, etc.
I do take a couple issues with the budget address itself (Video). Paul mentions that the police need riot gear for violent protests. Really? I don’t really have a response to that, unless of course the Keystone pipeline plans to go thru our town.
While I understand reorganizing certain departments when it comes to employees and roles, I do think the city needs to look at more technology to help reduce the number of city employees we have. This of course would require us to eliminate the person in charge of that. Please do that soon, we could probably save millions.