Highlights from 2015/16 – 2016/17 Budget Workshop

Slide #16 – Five different taxes you pay, just to the county, for every gallon of gas

Slide #23- $405,273,000 Unfunded Road Projects (How many are truly needed vs. their wishlist?)

Slide #24 – Administration propaganda for pushing Commissioners to raise taxes

Slide #27 – CCU connection fees collected between 2002 and 2007 were nearly $50,000,000. Where did that money go?

Slide #31 – Over $9,000,000 on Parkside

Slide #32 – $385,266,000 UNFUNDED utilility projects (How much is just to keep their cronies busy?)

Slide #45 – $5,000,000 TAX DOLLARS down the Murdock Village hole EVERY YEAR!

Slide #49 – $633,000 for just four glorified signs (this doesn’t include annual maintenance)!

Slide #51 – Facilities Construction & Maintenance is DOUBLING! (for the unneeded, luxurious waterfront Justice Center)

Slide #63 – $357,000 for the Convention Center? Why aren’t they self sustaining?

Slide #66 – They have no funding for the Justice Center, but they’re committing to spend $5,700,000 anyway

Slide #72 – $361,000 could buy every county worker a new desktop. And that’s only half of the $722,000 that they want to spend.

Slide #77 – How old are the two ambulances they are replacing for $575,000?

Slide #83 – $5,330,000 they don’t have for a new police substation they don’t need

Slide #84 – $4,000,000 for gun range renovation?!

Slide #87 – $9,500,000 wish list

Slide #92 – Another $250,000 for Franz Ross Park drainage?

Slide#93 – Another $400,000 taxpayer dollars on Ray’s Stadium (the Deutsch-proof parking gate)

Slide #97 – $645,000 for two playgrounds?!

Slide #98 – $705,000 for lighting on three fields?!

Slide #100 – What government needs a portable stage? We have $300,000,000 in debt.

Slide #112 – Hiring another 24 employees on top of the 20 already hired.