Archive for 'budget'

The Barnett challenge

Posted 16 September 2009 | By | Categories: budget, Village Council | 21 Comments

At the 9/15 council meeting Bob Barnett laid out a challenge for council members regarding the upcoming budget workshop on Saturday Oct. 3 at Fire Station #2.  Each council member is to identify and make a list of the following: 15 services that could be outsourced 5 services that can’t be outsourced (core services, if [...]

Quote/unquote

Posted 02 September 2009 | By | Categories: budget, Neighbohoods, Public Works, Quote/unquote, Strategic Planning, Taxes, Village Hall | 8 Comments

“I’m going to be real blunt here: The public involvement with respect to trees is very much appreciated –I hope we get half that involvement when it comes to our budget..We’re talking about difficult, daunting topics like taxes, fees, revenues, the services we provide. And trees, while important, is a budgeted item and while it [...]

Taxing times

Posted 21 August 2009 | By | Categories: budget, community development, Development, Economic Development, Local Business | Comments Off

With my thanks to EDC President Greg Bedalov, from his quarterly presentation to council: where our sales tax revenue comes from, why we’re in a budget vise that’s sqeezing us hard, and what’s being done to ease the pain…