Nutter; Philadelphia City Council Pass operating budget
At 11:48AM Mayor Nutter officially signed the FY09 operating budget into law. Also signed was the Mayor’s five-year plan for tax reduction at a slightly less ambitious rate then initially proposed.
This was a bold and necessary move by the Mayor. Personally, I agree with scaling back the wage tax cuts, thus keeping the budget from drawing more of its resources from it’s already struggling property owners. The 2.4% increase was for extremely worthy causes including adding more police to the beat and increasing funding to Fairmount Park.
Your thoughts?
With the mayor and city counsel closing libraries, recreation centers, fire stations and laying off city worker to make up the budget deficit my question is are the mayor and city counsel cutting their budgets to help in closing the gap? Each councilperson could help by giving up their city car, laying off their driver and one administrative assistant. They could get a car from the carpool when needed and drive themselves. The money in car insurance and satires could be substantial.
Dorverne Moore
December 17, 2008 at 10:28 pm