While campaigning for Yousefian
and Philpott this morning, I ran into Elaine
Wilkerson. She introduced herself as a
supporter of Laura Freeman.[sic] She told me that she was glad that the city,
several years ago, raised the salaries of the city employees because we were
losing many talented people. I told her
that I did not know that fact. But, I
did tell her, with 10% unemployment in the county today, I am sure we could
replace most employees without a problem. She said we would get incompetent personnel in
return. This evening as I was reflecting
on Ms Wilkerson's comment, I thought about the two staff reports that I had
previously reported to the city council last year. If you recall, Barry, the city's Financial
Report stated that for fiscal year 2008-2009 we would be $8.5M in the red. I told council and city manager Starbird and Asst CM Bob McFall
that the report was for only Jul, Aug, and Sept and that for the whole year it
would be $88M per the projected Financial Report. Mr. McFall told me
that the staff report could have been "perceived as being deceptive".
We just finished our 2nd quarter of the
fiscal year and the public has not been told what the 2nd quarter losses are? Last year I also reported to the City Council
and staff that their report stated a first year operating expense for the
proposed
Mike Mohill