Budget Corrections for Galveston County
On Wednesday, the campaign released a long list of possible budget improvements by line item.
Shrinking the budget of an organization isn't easy. It requires discipline and careful planning. It can be a painful experience. If it is not done however, families having to pay higher tax bills on their homes and properties are the ones who get to experience the pain.
Take a look at our budget corrections for Galveston County by clicking here.
Then come back and post your comments.
Shrinking the budget of an organization isn't easy. It requires discipline and careful planning. It can be a painful experience. If it is not done however, families having to pay higher tax bills on their homes and properties are the ones who get to experience the pain.
Take a look at our budget corrections for Galveston County by clicking here.
Then come back and post your comments.
posted by Chris Stevens @ 9/08/2006 07:10:00 AM
2 Comments:
At Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:31:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Your budget only emphasizes how clueless your platform is. What are your justifications for all of the staffing cuts? Galveston County is one of the fastest growing counties in America. Crime will not go away by consolidating the courts. How do county salaries compare to other metropolitan areas? If you cut to deep, you get what you pay for.
At Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:49:00 PM,
P. Moratto said…
The budget items link in your post didn't work ("page not found"), so I'll have to comment in general and from fading memory, beginning with something you talked about when we appeared on the Anything League City show a couple of months ago.
It was about the enormous money the county spends on its numerous parks, which may be the second biggest line item. Still, the amount pales in comparison to vague salaries that add up to the county's number one expense.
At any given time, passing glance reveals that most parks are little used by the public, with the exception of planned, advertised regular events, most of which are once-a-year only. The county park in League City is a good example of a little used facility that saw huges wads of county dollars roll into it, turning it into a virtual shopping center parking lot without the shopping center.
This is not to say that the city's 200 acres of parks are much different or better.
You also operate senior citizen centers all over the county, which seem to serve only 1,000 people. Wouldn't offices for folks to renew their vehicle papers in more and closer places serve the broader public better?
We've seen more public boat ramps too, and many believe they are needed because they get clogged up a lot. But that's not because there are more recreational boaters than ramps. It's because police converge upon them as a source of liesure capital revenues. At one, at least nine different police agencies, both land and sea bound, claim jurisdiction. Joint membership in a so-called and self appointed "task force" supposedly grants them all collective and combined jurisdictions.
Your county sheriff department was allowed to enter into contracts with school districts that take county resources outside the county as well.
And then there's state law, lobbied for by police, that requires police, at $22 an hour or more, plus equipment, to babysit public road workers, who used to get along just fine with an $8 an hour flagman for decades. All of this lends the appearance of great need for us to grow an enormou$ law enforcement indu$try.
Do you people (oh sorry, Chris, you're off the hook because you didn't get that county post) ever question the legality of these things, not to mention spiralling expenses, or do you just give the cops carte blanche?
In L.A., if you live in the city, you pay city property taxes. If you live in the county, you pay the county. NOT both. When my city incorporated here, ALL county services to my property address ceased. ALL of them. Why am I still paying the county as much as I pay the city, and for what?
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