Why? Two things. First, he’s remedied all of his slumlord problems with the City of Milwaukee, and next, he’s brought forward what he will call a 1% budget.
Yep. Basically, he met my challenge.
The average $335,000 home in Brookfield will see an increase due to city expenses of about $35.
Oh, there are pages and pages of numbers we could go through, but it’s not necessary. This budget will pass as written. Jeff Speaker will neuter the chances of every Alderman-turned-mayoral-candidate in the room. There’s plenty in his record to play against, but it won’t be this budget – the freshest piece of legislation most voters will remember.
That said, there wasn’t a lot of wiggle room. Growth was about a half percent. He’s within $400,000 of the cap of $35.5 million levy cap I was given, although the text he wrote says he left $500,000 on the table. Coincidentally, this year there was a decision to pull $400,000 from the cushy general reserve fund the city keeps.
It’s election time! And more importantly, staff wants him back, or they wouldn’t have crafted this budget in his favor.
2 responses so far ↓
1 DICK STEINBERG // Sep 25, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Cindy. I have more faith in good government and do not think all decisions are politically motivated. The city staff is just doing the job that the economy dictates. However, my goal is to cut property taxes by starting with the elimination of non-essential spending line by line and ending with an extra frugal city government.
2 Cindy Kilkenny // Sep 25, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Now just how do you plan to make that happen?
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