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August 03, 2007
Will The Real Deficit Please Sit Down?
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| Be careful what you ask for. You might not like it when you get it. I got copied on an email last night where
the City Manager Greg Jones states he has been looking at a "loaded" ten-year
plan that was produced back in January that shows an approximate budget
deficit of $125,000,000 for the city of Chico. I'm not sure what "loaded" means. If the term is analogous to the way "loaded" is used in electronic circuits or mechanical systems it would mean while in use or under pressure. Maybe I'm getting too engineery, and loaded simply means everything added in. The difference between "loaded" and what we've been previously told is $69,000,000. That's more than I make all year! The $125,000,000 deficit does not include increased staff or union costs. Jones' also states that we might see staffing needs assessments for the Police and Fire at the August Finance Committee meeting. I've noticed that the Chico Police Department tends to aim high when making budgetary/staff/infrastructure requests. The same may be true of the Fire Department, but I haven't seen any requests made by that organization. This is a good negotiating practice. But it does have the effect of making the first cost estimates out the gate wildly high. It looks like some folks at the city are already planning for higher deficits, and already have documents in hand detailing what they are. We should hear more on this before the end of the month. Side Note: I thought the Bertagna Challenge was fun. I'm going to continue doing it, but I don't want to just use images of cars. Most of you could care less about those old boats some of us like to drive. Since I can sometimes have an off-color sense of humor I thought it would be best not to use somebody else's name. So I'll call it the CI Challenge, and there's a new one below. Oh, and Gregg and Steve can play as well. |
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CI Challenge Be the first to guess what this is a picture of and receive 4 tickets that can be used to get into Wal-Mart free. Answer: Tom Selleck's mustache. Gregg Payne was the winner. Since Gregg doesn't shop at Wal-Mart, he'll be getting 4lbs of raw hamburger to go with his all-meat lifestyle. |
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Posted by Lon at August 3, 2007 12:00 AM
Comments
Stalin's mustash?
Posted by: pypr at August 3, 2007 06:49 AM
Pypr,
Very close, think fewer mass graves, more lava.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at August 3, 2007 06:56 AM
I was thinking of Tom Selleck's.
Posted by: Gregg Payne at August 3, 2007 07:12 AM
Kelly Meaghers Beard after the roast
Posted by: Anthony at August 3, 2007 07:42 AM