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Local 553 million budget review that did not get accepted. Some comments from the meeting.
"So there's not a single additional police officer?" Councilwoman Neoma Jardon said. "There's not a single additional person to address the issue of homelessness or the need of affordable housing issues?"
The mindset that an additional person to address homelessness or affordable housing would solve such problems helps to illsutrate the way elected officials think.
"I think we are all disappointed," Clinger said. "Part of what we are struggling with is the property tax cap and the way it is calculated it is restricting the growth of our property tax revenue. It fell from its peak at a rapid rate, and next year it is only growing at 0.2 percent. That is hurting our ability to provide necessary services including public safety."
Pissed off like a landlord with a rental increase cap that took out too much credit card debt when things were good. Completely ignoring its not the cap but the spending that increased. And the whole for public safety as a fake justifier. Especially without qualifying what is "public safety"
"I want this to be a council driven budget and not a staff driven budget," Schieve said.
Seems liek some werid egotisical concern that leaves out the public.
Schieve asked Assistant Police Chief Jason Soto how many officers he would need to adequately serve the growing population and land area of the city. Soto answered: "Ideally, we would need 50 more officers."
First of all what kind of question is that. What is adequate and to whom. What growth? Growth in people, crime or need of revenue? And how can the police chief answer so easily like the question was 25+25. Where did he even derive such an answer from? I'm guessing just a random number to a dumb question that is more about politics.
"The City Council would get a 1 percent boost to fund automatic salary increases for council members and increases in the cost of their benefits. Under a restructuring, the City Manager's office would get a 6 percent boost to fund the creation of an economic development office and other changes."
Complain not enough but still take your piece of the pie. And the last thing the city needs is more "economic development". The mayor has business interest in a part of town where I believe that 6% increase will go to and the only reason for it.
Im not sure there will ever be a good politician. The job only attracts the worst types of people. Think the big question is how to attract beter politicians. How to create an incentive system for better governance. Which I have no idea how to do accept their pay is based on performance like a typical job + public review of outcome. Maybe if you take away the guaranteed money and power it would attract a better crop of people who beleive they can do the job, exceed, and get paid. But also might create a different game of how they try to play the game.... i dont know.terrible wankers we currently have and mind numbing to see how they function and behave. fuck them all....
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