I find it deplorable that our elected officials can
conclude that our right to vote was not worth the money to pay for the special
election, yet, they found a special election to be worth the cost to budget in
this budget packet to raise our utility rates!
I find it absurd that in this budget packet I see a great
sum of money being set aside to pay for fiber optic cable for our Internet and
cable TV, yet I also see the city wanting to make a deal for someone to take it
over.
Seems to me the state constitution is clear that
government is forbidden from making us stockholders in other corporations.
I find it criminal that this city plans to budget that
fiber project from our electrical fund when state law is clear that revenue of
the power and light fund cannot be used for other municipal purposes.
I find it criminal that once again the same sliding scale
amount is budgeted for the cable TV and Internet as has been in years past,
after public disclosure on video on this blog, that the power and light fund
has been paying for the losses of these other two funds in violation of state law.
I find it criminal that these outrageous administrative costs
are being budgeted against our enterprise businesses in violation of the law,
when the trust costs are not known as money is being budgeted to pay an auditor
to determine these true costs after this budget will be passed.
I find it criminal to still see these 5% and 2% franchise
fee taxes in violation of the law and our charter are still being taken from
our municipal power and light company for other municipal uses in this proposed
budget.
I find it utterly stupid and a gross mismanagement to see
these 5% and 2% franchise fee taxes still being taken from all of our
enterprise business funds, after the recent disclosure of the conditions of
these enterprise businesses over the utterly stupid and gross mismanagement
decisions of the past that caused all these problems.
There are so many violations of law, utterly stupid and
gross mismanagement I find in this proposed budget as a whole that it could be
a book to point it all out here.
Yet the government here waited until the last hour, of
the last day basically to propose this budget. Yet it is clear by recent
council statements and reading statements in this proposed budget packet that
no one person in our government knows what our true administrative costs our
being charged to our enterprise businesses.
It is clear that no one person in our government
understands that municipal power and light company means A/C electrical power
to turn motors and light lights and any other purposes means even DC electrical
signaling power to transmit video and date streams.
Meaning all the numbers included in this proposed budget
using power and light funds for other municipal uses is a violation of law.
It is clear to me that no one person in our government
has learned that what led to the problems of today were caused by our lack of
performance based management I have been pleading for, for decades.
Now stupidity may not be crime, but stupidity may well
lead to a crime if it violates the law.
In this case that violation of law may very well end up
being a crime. That crime may very well abuse of public office if this budget
passes as proposed.
This crime not only applies to the council. It applies to
every position within our government. Every official elected, appointed or employed
(paid or volunteer) by the city, holds a public office for the whole of the
people.
That includes the budget committee (elected, unlawfully appointed
without a legal quorum or volunteer appointed) and every employee should they
not do their due diligence and break out the true costs and follow the law in
its entirety and allow this budget to pass as proposed.
Cody
"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion
thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the
full menu of rights."
Desmond Tutu
