Aiming to knock the proposed tax hike down to 3 percent, Board of Finance member Janet Moylan is eyeing across-the-board spending cuts.
To reach her goal, she would need to find $2.8 million to slice away from the proposed budget that would hike taxes by 6.4 percent in the coming year.
Cutting education, she said, would have to be part of it.
To absorb its fair share of the reduction, the allocation for education would be reduced by $750,000 — putting the overall school budget about $250,000 below this year’s level. Click here for story.
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9 comments:
How come the Mayor is not going public with some sort of plan to cut spending? Hey GOP! Wake up! Again you are missing an opportunity!
He doesn't have any!
Nobody ever said being a Board of Finance member was easy, but Moylan is taking the lazy way out.
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If you want departments to reduce spending, Janet, YOU tell them where to cut. YOU tell Francine Petosa what day you want the libraries to be closed. YOU tell the Board of Education which AP classes to cut. YOU tell the Public Works Department which streets don't get paved (AGAIN). YOU tell the Fire Department which fire station to close (and it better not be in my neighborhood!).
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You've been on the Board of Finance long enough to know what those departments do. It's time to use that experience and show us some leadership.
The Board of Finance DOES NOT have that authority.
All they can do is set the budget, the Mayor and the Departments implement it.
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Neither does Cockayne and the GOP
Is anyone taking into consideration that cuts in education result in cuts in state aid?
And are these cuts, or just the deferring of spending that will then take place next year etc.?
odin aka idiot
"The Board of Finance DOES NOT have that authority. All they can do is set the budget, the Mayor and the Departments implement it."
Pedantic. There is no fat in any departmental budget anymore. If Janet wants to cut meat and bone, she should have the guts (no pun intended) to say where.
Let's face it! Cockayne and the GOP have no solutions! They only know how to create a problem and come back with (what they wan us to believe) a solution...BS politics at is best! What a disapointment! and yes, I did voted for this good for nothing...I will correct my mistake soon enough.
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