self-serving

Perhaps the state tax authorities will do the pool audit that is so badly needed. They ARE looking for other sources of revenue to make up for the HUGE deficits. Are the ones doing the current city audit the same ones that have done it in the past? and found NO problems? NONE at the pool? Can it be that city officials consistently lowball their revenue estimates with ridiculously low numbers so that, at the end of the year, when revenues are found to be higher, they can congratulate themselves and ask for another raise? Is that POSSIBLE??? THAT would be totally self-serving, dishonest, and manipulative, right? Illegal?

lowball numbers again

Seven million is the lowball starter price on a new gym, to get us involved. Remember the 150k CC addition? The one that would up costing us more tha THREE times that original figure? The bathrooms were supposed to cost 200k at the start, a generous figure even then. The numbers for that project are now approaching 500k and it is STILL not functional, two years later. The lowball approach has worked so well in the past they are trying it again. They will continue to use that approach until WE stop them. Those two projects alone have caused over 600k of our tax monies to disappear, over and above the usual and customary costs. Their response to this? Ignore it and it will go away, like it NEVER happened. Could ANY business survive spending like that? Of course not, and neither can we. Can the whole crew! Start with the City Manager.

lowball numbers

It appears that the City Attorney would be handling any annexation issues. Its true that its hard to believe any of the numbers coming from the City Managers office or the Finance Dept. There is a history of lowball numbers coming out of there at the beginning of any major project. Who can forget the 150k CC addition? that turned out to be well over 400k. The 200k bathroom project that will end up costing 500k? They draw you in with the lowball numbers and then whack you with double, triple, and more once the project has begun. It WILL BE the same with the new gym project.