During his state of the city, which seemed more like having coffee with your pastor in a hotel lobby then an official meeting (it was in a hotel lobby, no lies) he talked about all the ‘crap’ nobody cares about (he bragged about the new sewer plant). Then he started whining, and that is his new thing, whining how everyone treats him unfairly. He cried about the legislature taking property tax revenue from the city and made up some statistic* about how we were going to lose money, then he said, “You have two choices when faced with this, you can either 1) find new revenue sources OR 2) increase the current taxes.” WOW! Or NUMBER 3 – CUT SPENDING! I was blown away that he didn’t even mention this as an option. It amazes me that an elected official is either that arrogant, naive or stupid (probably a combination of all) that he wouldn’t mention budget cuts. And I am not supporting what Sally and Tesler are doing in DC I’m just saying, when less tax revenue is coming in, you adjust. Is there something I am missing? I also found it funny you could only live stream the event on YouTube and not in the city’s stream service or citylink livestream. YouTube is only used when it is convenient for their warped agenda. Maybe next they will give the lead janitor the authority to charge a TP surcharge to fund his kid’s college fund.
*Paul said the city would lose $25 million over the next decade. So yeah, he is whining about losing $2.5 million in tax revenue per year with a city that has a $700M yearly budget. (.0036% of budget). We also have around $70 million in reserves. The city NOT hurting from the property tax cut.
I also noticed the mayor is trying to rip off my old man mohawk. NO dice Bruh. No dice.
“First, it was prior restraint, and now it’s fiscal restraint”…… “But I wonder if he knows about and/or enjoys physical restraints?
” … #S&MPolitics
This mayor is TenFricken mistakes but there’s a lot more. Isn’t it time to get back to competitive bid process with commissioners (no councilors) to run city government. Home Rule Charter can revert to Home Confinement with fines for abuse of public funds.
So, what percent of the $ 700 million a year city budget is directly dependent upon Trump Dollars, I mean, federal Dollars?
( and Woodstock adds: “‘Trump Dollars’?”…. “Say, is that anything like Hobo Dollars?”….. )
If I worked at Falls Community Health I would be looking for a job in the private sector right now because that will be the first casualty and it will go down hill after that.