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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Cut the coffee, bring back 4-H

On the eve of the adoption of Hamilton County's 2008 budget, the three commissioners have released their recommendations on what should stay and what should go. They also hope to save lots of programs, including the OSU extension (4-H)and some economic development stuff.
Some highlights
Commissioner David Pepper wants to eliminate or reduce funding for buying coffee, bottled water and office furniture, among other things, saving a whopping $300,000.
Read all his suggestions here

Commissioner Pat DeWine wants to create a special criminal justice fund to pay to house excess inmates in Kentucky and have Cincinnati and Sheriff Simon Leis help pay for Over-the-Rhine deputies.
Read all his suggestions here

Commissioner Todd Portune wants to consolidate the county administration departments and is banking on a program to collect delinquent taxes to provide enough money to levies to fund some of other initiatives. Example: using Drake hospital levy money to help care for veterans.
Read all his suggestions here.


12 Comments:

at 7:39 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Pepper, how about cutting the funding to all programs run by people you used to date?

 
at 7:54 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

www.dumpdewine.org

 
at 8:03 PM, December 18, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why do the commissioners need to employ 2 aides each? it wasn't that long ago that they had 1 each, and before Bedinghaus was elected, they had to share one between the 3 of them. 1 each ought to be enough. That is also true for City Council.

 
at 8:30 AM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon. 12/18 at 8:03p

I concur totally with your comment about cutting one Aide each. I also believe that elected officials in the Court House ... should follow the steps of the departments under the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners. NO RAISES and MORE BUDGET CUTS, including Sheriff Leis not purchasing any additional equipment, cars, or unnecessary toys!

 
at 9:20 AM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon 8:30, this is 8:03 again.

Totally on board with what you're saying about the Court House. The county should look at cutting their support of the courthouse as well. The judges have their own pot of money from court costs and filing fees, however, so imposing freezes might be tough. Still, if they had less money from the commishes, it might force them to try fiscal conservatism for once in their lives.

 
at 10:26 AM, December 19, 2007 Blogger usefullidiot said...

Let's tie up the courts a little more with patriots contesting red light camera tickets!!!!!!!!!!

 
at 3:17 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great idea eliminating bottled water, but I'd be embarrassed to list that like it was a bright light. Why should the gov't be buying bottled water to begin with? Bottled water is a joke and an environmental nightmare that I'd prefer to not support with my tax money.

 
at 3:47 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

the link to POrtune's budget is not working

 
at 4:37 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bottled water? What's wrong with the fine drinking liquid from the Metropolitan Sewer District??

 
at 8:08 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

A $40 million deficit and Pepper is talking about bottled water?

 
at 9:33 PM, December 19, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank goodness, Portune's link is not working because his ideas of cuts would probably bother me.

I certainly hope working for Hamilton County next year is better than this round. After 19 years of devoted service, it is a very sad day at the least that we are in this predictment.

Thank you, Commissioners Pat and David for trying to do the right thing. We must get Commissioner Todd Portune out of this office. He can go back to City Council or go run for State Representative.

 
at 9:11 AM, December 20, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

link to Portune's budget is STILL NOT WORKING.

 
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