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Originally Posted by Robbie0723
The other side of the story as summarized previously by Mr. Don Wiley:
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Of course, you can't see these increase in the 2020 budgets because they only forward when they present the budgets, they don't show how much it increased from the previous year. To see this, you have to pull the 2019 budget proposals and painstakingly compare it line item by line item to the 2020 budget, only then does the truth of the mismanagement of the county come to light.“
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Is that true? I haven't checked, but maybe someone else already keeps up with this and can just tell us here. There's no legal announcement of proposed budgets showing comparisons between current budget and proposed for the following year, line by line (or at LEAST department by department with a *footnote explaining the change)?
How are voters supposed to know WHAT they like and don't like about the current representatives, if they aren't even presented with the full budget comparison from year to year? If my board of education wants more money, I should be able to see on a line in the Bd of Ed budget sheet what the exact increase is, the percentage difference over the previous year, and which thing(s) is/are increasing. If it's office supplies increasing by 10%, I should be able to see that right there in the proposed budget. If the county's total contribution to all participating teachers' 401K plan is increasing by 1%, I should be able to see that. If they need an additional 4% to cover the insurance company's requirement of a buffer for the roof fund, I should be able to see that.
Without having to go to the previous year's line-item budget and compare with the current or the proposed.
That should be columnized.