Originally Posted by
andreahaxton
Last night at the City Council meeting that lasted a whooping appr. 14 minutes BTW, the Retired Part-Time City Comptroller who earns $30,000/year and works 19 hours/week told us, when I questioned OUR City Fund Balance, that, " It is NOT good".
They had to even move $1600.00 out of OUR $25,000 Contingency account to pay for something for Fred the Dog Catcher. When audited in 2006 by NYS they were told $25,000 is too low to keep on hand for emergencies BUT, they would not listen to the State.
The BIG DEAL is that the appr.$6,000,000.00 that was there two years ago is about gone and the BIG QUESTION is where did it all go really?! He tried to say it went to buy down the tax levy to the City budget---I'll buy some of that---but 6 mil?!? He then tried to put some of the blame on me and say it was in the budgets I voted on----I voted NO for for 06/07, 08/09, and 09/10. The only Budget I voted yes for was 07/08 after the October "surprise storm" because they promised me they would re-tree and land-scape all over our City. They lied to me again and think they are very funny and clever.....sadly the ones cheated are the Citizens out of a greener/cleaner City.
Did "Normans' Fol-lie" on Norman Way/Love Terrace have anything to do with eating up the 6 mil......? Citizens should demand to know where their money was spent!
2009 I pushed and they all finally agreed to use the Fund Balance to pave Ridge Road with OUR Surplus Fund Balance and now they have to "Float a Bond" ?! What is up, fellas?
Please Post an Itemized Bill on the City Web of all the 6 million spent in the past 2 years, Thank You!