Budget woes for the taxpayer
The annual budget dances have begun. These exercises designed to make the pols look good are consuming and fearful for taxpayers. Cobourg's taxpayers have been warned that the 4% preliminary budget can be reduced to an "ACCEPTABLE" 2% by cutting $212,000 of the planned budget. Given the size of the budget $12 million, just how hard can this be? If the gap is only 212K then we should be cutting at least twice that much and giving us a decrease because guess what, the profligate County wants to increase its budget by 8%.
In addition to dinging us with an unacceptable increase the County proposes by laying off workers at the MRF. Citing the need for replacement equipment they have proposed an equipment renewal programme that will cost jobs. Perhaps we wouldn't have been in this mess if the pointyheads at the County had set up reserve programmes for equipment when the MRF had been opened.
In addition to dinging us with an unacceptable increase the County proposes by laying off workers at the MRF. Citing the need for replacement equipment they have proposed an equipment renewal programme that will cost jobs. Perhaps we wouldn't have been in this mess if the pointyheads at the County had set up reserve programmes for equipment when the MRF had been opened.
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With the big County tax hike, I can't help but wonder how much the new County Palace and all its associated costs have added to the bottom line?
We were told it wouldn't cost a thing after it was so quickly and quietly approved by Council, but I suspect there are costs there that we will have to pay for quite a while.
Laying off rank and file workers concerns me too, especially given how well the white collar types are treated. Paying somebody who has been criminally charged with theft from his employer is extraordinarily generous; and I'm guessing that's not a perk any of their unionized employees would ever get.
Then there's the fiasco of hiring trauma counsellors so staff can deal with their angst over their disgraced colleague - will they offer that same service to the laid off workers? Doubt it.
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