> Ms. Hatchet suggests: > > Only own what you can afford to maintain. > > Pay down debt as quickly as possible to free up future cash flow. > > Ask how many parks can Mpls afford? Not: How many do we want?
GREAT advice... and don't forget the golf courses in the analysis! Michael Hohmann Linden Hills > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Victoria Heller > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:59 PM > To: Minneapolis Forum > Subject: [Mpls] Budgeting 101 from Ms. Hatchet > snip > Ms. Hatchet suggests: > > Only own what you can afford to maintain. > > Pay down debt as quickly as possible to free up future cash flow. > > Ask how many parks can Mpls afford? Not: How many do we want? > If the answer is 50, then get rid of the other 50 - sell the property > for cash and put it back on the tax rolls. You'll get a twofer. > > Repeat this process for Libraries. > > Remember that Mpls is the same size that it was in 1920 - and > according to Dyna, shrinking by the day. Property tax collections and > the missing schoolchildren would confirm her observations. > > The NRP should go bye bye. Every other City in the world gets along > without such a program. All of the money saved could be used for > public safety, or anything else the CITY COUNCIL decides to spend it > on. The neighborhoods will have to get by without an allowance. > > The City shouldn't be in the real estate business at all. It's hard > for me to imagine the need for anything more than a normal zoning and > planning department. > > Think of these techniques as a diet. "It's for your own good." > Got willpower? > > Ms. Hatchet (Vicky Heller) > North Oaks snip REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
