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Subject: Out of Control Spending? Author: Ned Depew [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10:15:15 10/25/05 Tue Friends - If you wonder what is raising taxes, it's not incresasing property values - it's out-of-control-spending fostered by the Scaleranetti Administration. This Mayor and his cronies have spent the City into debt, in spite of increasing property values, and growing tax receipts from both property and sales taxes. Rick - and presumably his hand-picked successor - have the attitude that the City's money is their money. They decided to spend $100,000 from the City's funds to overturn the austerity the voters of the District had imposed on the HCSD in an effort to make the District responsible to voters - and parents. They didn't ask the people - they just went ahead and spent the money - your money. Rick raised his salary - with the approval of the then rubber-stamp council - to the same level as that of Mayors of cities with 3-4 times the budget and population (and work load!) of our City - and he added well-paying plum jobs - appointed by him - for his close cronies. As if the money he was spending was his. Dick Tracy has pledged to reduce the Mayor's salary to a reasonable level and to curb spending on the now full-time Mayor's assistant. He is proposing an open budgeting process and the drastic reduction of "discretionary spending." These are policies that will yield much more voter control over the taxes we actually pay and make it much clear to citizens what they are getting for their hard earned tax dollars. It's time for that kind of hard-headed budgetary responsibility and realism. The Scaleranetti challengers, by contrast, don't even mention control of spending in their platform. Hmnnnn..... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Out of Control Ned? Author: Pete R [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 19:26:09 10/25/05 Tue It is your cronies who want all the services and yell when they don't get them. You can't have it both ways now can we Ned? Your neighbor Pete.

[> [> Subject: If I had a crony... Author: Ned Depew [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 23:27:28 10/25/05 Tue I would have to ask Rick how to work him/her. Apparently you're of the Scaleranetti school of thought that believes that if you are a taxpayer you shouldn't get what you pay for? If you are paying taxes that are supposed to make life better in your City and the only people they are making life better for are the Mayor and his cronies, you damn well ought to yell, oughtn't you? But perhaps you are one of the beneficiaries of the Scaleranetti largesse, and think things are just fine as they are.