magical Council disappears our money, LOTS of it

The City doubles the fees for childcare for residents but allows the pool to be used for the benefit of nonresidents for free, and totals up a 300k deficit for taxpayers to pay? Are they NUTS? The only reason the budget in the past 3 years has looked better was due to the increasing property tax revenues, a windfall happening, not due to any sense fiscal responsibility on the Council's part. The increasing property taxes have reversed themselves of course, due to the recession that we are in, resulting in growing deficits as the Council spends like its 1999. It could easily be said that the budget looked better during those years IN SPITE of the Councils reckless and irresponsible spending on the CC addition and the bathrooms. The fiscal insanity continues with the proposed spending on the new gym project. If we had the 750k that disappeared on the CC and bathroom projects we would be in a a MUCH better position financially. Think about that- 750k of our hard-earned tax dollars just disappeared into thin air! They have learned NOTHING from those two construction projects and I predict the new gym will cost 20 million to complete and take FIVE years, if the previous projects are any guide. The residents MUST protest!