State view: Access to details would make local government budgets easier to trim
May 22, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Last week I wrote a letter to the lawmakers who sponsored a great idea that was included in the tax omnibus bill vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton last week. The great idea was requiring cities and, I hope, all units of government, including school boards, eventually to post four years of budgets by expenditure type on their websites.
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When this gentleman can quote from something other than “Chief Executive” magazine, then perhaps the working people among us can relate. Otherwise, it simply looks like a push for the republican agenda…..again.
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While I’m sure the author has an agenda, I’d like very much to see more transparency in spending. It’s ridiculous how much money is poured onto ‘fires’ in the name of ‘fixing’ things that never get resolved. Kinda like the executives of failing companies getting millions in bonuses! Time to get priorities straightened out, and this proposal to make budgetary spending more transparent seems pretty straight forward to me.
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