Gainesville Town Hall

On January 24th, 2010 the Gainesville Sun ran my Letter to the Editor (link) about the budgetary deficit and their ideas for how to meet that deficit. I felt the need to post my un-edited version because I felt a lot of valid points were lost:

The Gainesville City Commission recently met to address the 5.6 million dollar revenue deficit now due in 2010.

Gainesville city government has established an interesting cycle of proposing and implementing new programs that yield multi-million dollar spending deficits, year after year. According to the Commission, these deficits can only be remedied by raising taxes and creating new fees. continue reading »

Gainesville City Commissioners like to think of themselves as “environmentally progressive” (i.e.: signed the Kyoto Protocol, initiated a free Bicycle lending service that resulted in most of the bicycles being stolen, and dedicating large amounts of our transportation budget to RTS). However, one of the responsibilities of leadership is to dig a little deeper and consider every ramification of decisions imposed on the public. continue reading »

Were not the Commissioners of this city elected to serve the people of our city rather than vehemently resist them while pursuing their own agendas?

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