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Tt post fri mar 18 2016
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Maybe Burris and his good friend EconCat88 held their coffee summit after all. This is some negative-ass stuff, spewed by Burris. I wish Burris would be more positive, even though that would mean sacrificing intelligence.
Burris:
The mayor’s slogan — that she wants Toledo to be “a city of the 21st century” — is just that: a slogan. And a lame one at that.... the announcement of the seven monitors who would guard the incoming new tax money for streets (had it been approved) was a doozy. The seven seemed to be selected on the basis that they would either not have the time or not have the inclination to ask any tough question.
Seven seers? Seven blind mice, more like it. Nice folks, all of them, but with no clear mission or legal authority. This was a bad joke intended as a slick maneuver. [preach it, brother]
Insulting to the citizens, city council, and, actually, the mayor and her staff. THEY are supposed to be the junkyard dogs guarding our tax dollars.
... hire a managerial consultant, with experience in other cities — one from outside of this city. His job would be to work for the next two years with the mayor on reorganizing city government, eliminating cronyism and featherbedding, and, generally, to tell the mayor the truth, not what she wants to hear.
I don’t think the public is going to give the city any more money until there is evidence of change — some sort of reform and some attempt to set policy goals and actually manage city government.
And I don’t think it should.
Great day in the morning.
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