Sunday, September 14, 2008

Gymbos giveaways

The City Manager has certainly helped many special interest groups, like the contractors, with continuous cost overruns and change orders, to the tune of 600k + so far. He has also helped Santana by paying for his electricity, 100k so far, as if that sweetheart contract wasnt enough. He has helped several different groups at the pool, mainly by NOT charging them to use our facilities, while the pool loses 300k this year. All of that help to the special interests, unfortunately for the residents, the taxpayers had to pay for. As a result of all this money disappearing in various forms of mismanagement or worse, we will have a minimum of a 2.5 million dollar deficit next year. Add on several million dollars in debt and subsequent payments we cant pay from the gym project and it clear we are being led down a road to bankruptcy. How many giveaways can we afford before we are forced into bankruptcy court? Dont forget this in April.

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