The Budget Commission has been here for almost a year now. The Budget Process didn't start until about three weeks ago. They have been so busy sticking their nose in the city politics and worrying about who has been appointed to what committee or commission that the most important feature was neglected until now. A balanced budget.
It’s time for them to move on. We've had enough of the sharp comments, enough of the pillaging of our school department, enough of the decisions that best suit them and not the people of this city. We have to live here after they are done cutting us to the quick in all the wrong places. They get to go home to Seekonk, North Providence and so on without losing an hour of sleep over little old East Providence or the mess they are leaving behind.
Our schools are a disaster and they cut the school budget by $4 million. Our kids haven’t got the necessary equipment or tools to learn the new curriculum coming next year. Our parks and recs department will surely be eliminated with the new self-funding mandate as they need to produce $315,000 per year which will mean raises in all fees to our citizens to use the parks and recreation facilities. Our water bills are through the roof, our car taxes are outrageous, our property taxes are sky high, they have done nothing to promote economic growth, they’ve done nothing to generate new revenue except cut our homestead exemptions, nothing to improve our roads, nothing to fix our infrastructure and we can’t even go sit at a park to collect our thoughts because we won’t have anyone to maintain them. Oh, wait, let me guess, we can outsource it right? Bring in a hack private company and pay illegals to mow the grass. A much better plan. Yes, let’s do that instead.
We will have a new council soon enough and we should all say a novena that the next council has the fortitude to send this Budget Commission on their way. We’ve had enough.
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