They Need to show where all the money is going, who is getting it , the expenditures, and e plain why it is needed. Show all programs being bought and money to outside vendors and what it is for. Don’t tell each county department if you don’t use all your budget you get less next year . Budget correctly and let the save money and reward that department
Explain how and why the budget raised 54% in 5 years look at each budget and pay raises some 40,000 dollar raises why do we employ engineers but we sub contract mostly all engineering work toci etc how many millions are there contract they have employees work solely for clay county
Clay County BCC is not the only outfit in this County that has a spending problem. Green Cove Springs is out of control, and has been on a spending orgy for the past five years. Their property tax rate has increased 43%. Their electric rates have increased 60%. Last year they increased their water rates by 20% and this year they want another 12%.
The City hasn't saved a dime of revenue for their rainy day fund. Last year they had nothing to tithe them over in the event of a major catastrophe. This year with an additional $1.4 million in revenue they are struggling to put $300,000 into the bank for emergencies. They peed away $7 million in electric emergency funds and can't pay cash for simple emergency repairs. When the garbage truck broke down a couple of months ago (with only 70,000 miles on the odometer), they couldn't scrape up $50,000 for a down payment for a replacement truck.
This City has a $61 million budget but has $45 million in debt they can barely pay annual debt service. These are grown adults in City Hall that have less responsibility with money than my teenage boy had when he started to college.
Yesterday I learned that the City Manager was proposing to add more Red Light Cameras to raise $550,000 more money for the City coffers. My bet is that will go over like a $550,000 lead balloon.
Please go to the meetings. Please demand that your elected officials vote for the "rollback rate". And insist that your highly-paid government employees just say no to new taxes and higher utility rates.
Agree. It’s unreal. Also, even with enrollment down again this year the clay county schools wants to raise property taxes too for more $$$. Always knew those scam red light cameras were not for “safety”. It’s $$$. We go to the GCS City Hall meetings when we can when home. We wish more people would go, but they plan them on purpose at times inconvenient for folks.
They Need to show where all the money is going, who is getting it , the expenditures, and e plain why it is needed. Show all programs being bought and money to outside vendors and what it is for. Don’t tell each county department if you don’t use all your budget you get less next year . Budget correctly and let the save money and reward that department
Explain how and why the budget raised 54% in 5 years look at each budget and pay raises some 40,000 dollar raises why do we employ engineers but we sub contract mostly all engineering work toci etc how many millions are there contract they have employees work solely for clay county
Clay County BCC is not the only outfit in this County that has a spending problem. Green Cove Springs is out of control, and has been on a spending orgy for the past five years. Their property tax rate has increased 43%. Their electric rates have increased 60%. Last year they increased their water rates by 20% and this year they want another 12%.
The City hasn't saved a dime of revenue for their rainy day fund. Last year they had nothing to tithe them over in the event of a major catastrophe. This year with an additional $1.4 million in revenue they are struggling to put $300,000 into the bank for emergencies. They peed away $7 million in electric emergency funds and can't pay cash for simple emergency repairs. When the garbage truck broke down a couple of months ago (with only 70,000 miles on the odometer), they couldn't scrape up $50,000 for a down payment for a replacement truck.
This City has a $61 million budget but has $45 million in debt they can barely pay annual debt service. These are grown adults in City Hall that have less responsibility with money than my teenage boy had when he started to college.
Yesterday I learned that the City Manager was proposing to add more Red Light Cameras to raise $550,000 more money for the City coffers. My bet is that will go over like a $550,000 lead balloon.
Please go to the meetings. Please demand that your elected officials vote for the "rollback rate". And insist that your highly-paid government employees just say no to new taxes and higher utility rates.
Agree. It’s unreal. Also, even with enrollment down again this year the clay county schools wants to raise property taxes too for more $$$. Always knew those scam red light cameras were not for “safety”. It’s $$$. We go to the GCS City Hall meetings when we can when home. We wish more people would go, but they plan them on purpose at times inconvenient for folks.