about balancing the budget
Madison’s mayor is listing proposed cuts if the anticipated referendum to increase spending limits in perpetuity by $22 million is defeated on November 5. UPDATED: Except for a $23,000 nick, those cuts do NOT include the $509,420 million taxpayers spend on the lIndependent Monitor/Police Civilian Oversight Board, a do-nothing agency created to solve a non-existent problem.
Five years after its creation, this sop to Defund-the-Cops Wokeness still can’t write up a complaint form.
Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway is willing to cut $3.7 million from the fire department and $4.7 million for police, reduce brush pickups, cut back on snow plowing, shut down libraries on Sundays, and lay off election poll workers. Here’s the full list.
The Common Council convenes at 6:30 this very evening. Check out Item 68 on the agenda. Register your opposition.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Tell all 20 alders you want off the higher-tax bus. They can start by zeroing out the Police Civilian Oversight Board.
19 responses to “Madison’s mayor is not serious”
I still wonder what they(city) spent the $47 million of covid money on and if they continue to fund the programs set up for when the Federal, State and Local governments shut everything down. After all the years the Police Civilian Oversight Board has been around have they even come up with a complaint form?
Dave, wondering how much is spent annually on this Police Civilian Oversight Board. That $1.1 million is over how many years?
If The 77 Square Miles Surrounded By A Sea Of Reality can’t bilk taxpayers…I mean raise enough money…to fund victimhoodie, memorials to CRIMINALS, CRT, more More MORE Gimmee Gimmees for the undeserving, and more More MORE BIKIE paths/trails/lanes/boulevards/bridges?
THAT’S not a world in which The Gotch prefers to reside!
The Gotch
then move
Woof, woof, do i hear an annoying dog barking again.
Says the guy who doesn’t live or pay taxes here.
I am sure the gondola/mono rail system you proposed using other peoples money would have been a cash cow the city.
Mayor and Common Counsel do not give a crap about the taxpayers and how cash strapped taxpayers have become for the last 16 years. I try to spend as little money or time within town or city limits, i despise what this city has become. Left in 2013 for many reasons one being the MMSD refusal to help the property taxpayer by using Act 10 to save the district.
Yeah but! My gondola fantasy would be fun! Who thought putting a big metal arch in St. Louis would feed the poor?
Fun should never be a branch of government. Especially when they are tied to tangled tax schemes to help social issues. It is always 1 for them and 20 for admin and maintenance overhead. Taxpayers just need to give a little more every year for fun from other people money. I mean i have never had more fun in my life when i pay my tax bill every year!
Brain dead Madison liberals say “yes”. What a bunch of idiots. Am I right, Dick,?
Don’t like it; how about winning an election. That would be a start for you.
Trying to despite media bias, social media censorship and Lefty election interference. How about you win an election without cheating!
What’s missing on the list? Paycut for the Queen. Cut Alder wages until they balance it out.
Just tell Vos that you can prove trump won. That would be good for several million, Gabelman did it and he’s still cashing in.
Squire, Your insightful post describes perfectly an incompetent mayor whose proposed cuts to city services strike at the heart of what makes Madison a city. Reduced funding for police and fire protection and snow-plowing puts the safety of citizens at risk. The icy blizzard of last Jan 12 is a case in point. It was a snow-packed, injurious nightmare. And yet Mayor Satya wants to funnel money to the boondoggle known as the Police Civilian Oversight Board.
My one consolation is that I did not vote for this squishy piece of protoplasm from la-la land.
This is the same way school boards propose cuts when they don’t get referendums passed. Sports and arts programs are the first on the list, but you never see administration staff get smaller.
This is the same tactic the schoolboard has always used to get more money. But instead of threatening to close Goodman’s Pool and make the poor kids swelter, they usually pick the strings program. “Give me the money or I’ll shoot all the violin teachers!”
Seems like the public has grown wise to these tactics. I hope we call the Mayor’s bluff with a resounding NO to the referendum.
How fortunate the city created a brand new position in Budget Year 24, the ‘communications and marketing coordinator.’ That way, there’s someone there to tell the citizens the City has no money.