Me In Virginia Beach » taxes http://meinvb.net My wanderings, in and around Virginia Beach, VA Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:19:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 What About Us… http://meinvb.net/2009/10/30/what-about-us/ http://meinvb.net/2009/10/30/what-about-us/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:22 +0000 MeInVB http://meinvb.net/2009/10/30/what-about-us/ I read this article from WVEC, and had to ask what about us, the taxpaying citizens of the City of Virginia Beach. Apparently the City Manager , instead of doing his job, making the tough decisions, Mr Spore’s office has decided to let the cities workers decide how to save $49 Million dollars for the 2011 fiscal year.
I guess one way to save money is, getting rid of the employee’s/departments that have enough time available in their normal work day, to process 7,000 surveys…
Then you can eliminate take home vehicles, something I have thought was stupid for a long tin and as of yet fail to see what the value to the taxpayer is…
You may also want to consider not paying city workers to change lightbulbs in street lights on weekends, for which I betting there is some overtime involved, and since when does it take a crew of 4+ to change lightbulbs…
Then maybe you could start fining the city workers that run red lights in city vehicles, or cut subsidies to things like the Sandler Center, I read a while back that the city kicks down around a quarter million to help cover the costs there…
]]> http://meinvb.net/2009/10/30/what-about-us/feed/ 0