DEAR EDITOR:
”
More than 75 percent of our city’s general tax revenues fund
police and fire services.
”
– Mayor Tom Springer
Mr. Mayor, the Gilroy city budget is available to anyone wanting
to look at it on a convenient shelf just outside Mr. Baksa’s office
door.
DEAR EDITOR:
“More than 75 percent of our city’s general tax revenues fund police and fire services.”
– Mayor Tom Springer
Mr. Mayor, the Gilroy city budget is available to anyone wanting to look at it on a convenient shelf just outside Mr. Baksa’s office door. They have a table and chairs right next to the shelf. They don’t even shout at you if you come in barefoot.
Looking at budgeted expenditures, Gilroy expects to spend $14,575,007 on police services and $7,138,583 on fire protection services in fiscal 2002-2003. The total administrative budget for Gilroy is $33,889,402. Police and fire services are 64 percent of the administrative budget. The total budgeted expenditures for Gilroy city government is $122,480,097. Police and fire services are 18 percent of the city budget.
Even adding in the purely discretionary capital projects expenditures for the new police station, $12,803,795, the total is only 28 percent of the city budget.
It is no surprise when GUSD officials grossly misrepresent their financial numbers in order to scam the electorate into giving them more money. They are liberal bureaucrats with no discernible honor or sense of responsibility to the people who pay their salaries.
I expect better from you.
Stuart Allen, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, Feb. 6 to ed****@****ic.com
