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Leake Blames Bush For County Crisis
That assessment of the situation didn’t sit well with Commissioners Chairman Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat. She said the increased spending was needed to keep pace with the county’s exploding population growth, and that the board had been efficient with its use of resources.
“It’s not Democrats gone wild,” Roberts said.
Whatever the case or culprit, the county finds itself having to confront what County Manager Harry Jones labeled “brutal facts”. Revenues are expected to take a hit in almost every category, from decreased state funding and increased unfunded state mandates, to slumping sales taxes and fees. Revenue collected from property taxes is expected to inch up an anemic 0.1 percent, or about $1 million, next year.
While revenue and expense projections show an $85 million shortfall, Jones directed county departments to craft their own budgets to include targeted cuts that reflect up to a $95 million gap, so he could better evaluate the impacts of reduced services and employee layoffs.
Jones repeatedly stressed that the target reductions and budget projections were subject to change, and that his formal budget recommendation won’t be ready until May. But based on the board’s expressed desire to avoid a tax hike, Jones said he couldn’t “paint a rosy picture” for commissioners.
“There are going to be painful reductions,” he said.
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Roberts and Leake…… Good grief……. Words fail me…..do either one of these intellectual giants balance their Checkbooks AND WHY would they bother ?
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Once again Leake shows her ignorance just as she did in the county VFD funding issue. This writer believes she needs to take some civics and economics courses instead of attending free basketball games. Of course, Roberts could write a book and say nothing since she is now the master of cyclic arguments.
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“It’s not Democrats gone wild,” Roberts said” NO it is EVERYONE currently on BOCC! They have ALL been there WAY too long and we the citizens ALLOWED this to happen! Let put the blame where it belongs! BOCC!
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Thelma! I love you! You are sooo funny! Stop you’re killing me! Hahahahahahah.
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Spenders spend, that is all there is to it. At every single level of government, people have been elected to spend, spend, spend without any rein on them issued from the voting public. The only way to change it is to change the legislators to people who will not increase spending and will vote to reform, reduce and cut programs that are not essential or working.
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Maybe her brains Leaked out? This clap-trap is about as plausible as the Gores blaming Bush for the breakup of their marriage because of the stress placed on them from Bush’s theft of the presidential election in 2000!
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Mel, I think I actually heard that given as one of the reasons!
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