I'll be taking a break for a couple of weeks. The summer doldrums are here and when the budgets are ready we will be ready with review and comments. Until then enjoy the summer weather..
pa
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Taking a break until city and county budgets ready
I'll be taking a break for a couple of weeks. The summer doldrums are here and when the budgets are ready we will be ready with review and comments. Until then enjoy the summer weather..
pa
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Kind of sad that massive amounts of commercial property along Nampa/Caldwell blvd. are vacant,for sale or lease; yet the building of the new Nampa city hall is going strong!
ReplyDeleteBrian Vermillion, Caldwell.
Best post of the year
ReplyDeleteHello Paul the County budget hearings are going strong! What is the word with them. I understand from them the commissioners are letting the levy tax rate creep up and it will be a 15 perccent increase because the sheriff and prosicutor want raises when everyone else in the country are loosing their jobs. Sounds like some are still trying to buy votes or reward for political favors. Got any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI was told the recording on the last county budget meeting the PA said that paying the same to those that do the same job or type of job is socialism. Equal pay for equal work is it socialism? pual you need to get onto this! Please comment.
ReplyDeleteHow can some county employees feel justified in wanting pay increases when most government employees are getting laid off, wages reduced by five percent or more and they are being furloughed without pay? Please someone make a good case in this employment market and economic conditions we are experiencing in the county the state and all across the nation.
ReplyDeletePeople, please get your facts straight! All Canyon County Employees took a 2.5% pay cut several months ago... it was NEVER 5%. As for the work without being paid, the County issues comp time in lieu of pay... but the employees ARE being compensated (if not then the Department of Labor would be involved).
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that the only thing that some can focus on is the pay raises? Did you know that several of the departments in Canyon County refused to make the 7% cut requested by the Commissioners? How do you think Canyon County was able to make the overall budget? Could it be that some divisions made larger cuts to allow for those that refused? How can it be that you "overlooked" this small thing? W
As is typical in radical politics... look over the REAL issues and single out the meaningless ones!
Paul,I have been following your articles and I try to read all the comments. I must say the person who wrote comment five (5) does not really know anything about a budget or budgeting. My accounting career included over twenty plus years with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
ReplyDeleteLet me first say that I have not seen any of your articles mentioning a 5% wage increase. I think the local paper has covered the 2 ½ percent decreases and now the wages of county employees will be restored to their original pay. I may point out when you decrease something, when you use percentages the increase will be more than the decrease. For example if you decrease the price 50% and then increase it to its normal price it will be a 100% increase. However, I have not seen any of your articles or the papers articles saying anything about a 5 % increase.
Secondly, each budget submitted by a federal office would be examined for accuracy. We looked at the prior year’s actual usage and review the comments for any increases. It was also common that we would audit expenditures, making sure that the financial operations are what they are represented to be by that particular office.
It is a natural fact that offices became generous, to themselves. I might mention to commenter five (5) that each budget item has to be reviewed on an individual line item basis or the budgets get out of control. The wages section of a budget is extremely important! As with all government budgets the wage section is the largest! The feds are on a grade level rate. That means a G12 in the OMB would make the same as a G12 in the FBI. New positions were scrutinized very closely and in difficult economic times they would be denied.
I sure, as with the feds, not all budgets for all offices are equal in the type of expenditures needed to operate efficiently. NASA has a totally different budget than does the Supreme Court and so on.
It seems to me that local budgets are shoved in front of the mayor or the commissioners and if enough whining goes on that the office gets what they want without any questioning of need or oversight to the public. I love local politics because it’s usually a bunch of “know it alls” talking about something they have no knowledge of or experience in and it is all about entitlement. Cutting a budget is no big deal when you started on the high end. The details and single items are very important or you would not have the large view just ask the Government Accounting Standards Board or GASB.