Anybody know who voted against the budget?
Just curious. . . .
Russell Raczkowski
Bancroft
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Budget Passes 12-1
Prioritizes public safety while paying off debt
The Minneapolis City Council passed the 2005 City budget 12-1 today
largely unchanged from Mayor R.T. Rybak's August budget presentation.
"I've spent much of the year finding ways to prevent layoffs in the
Police Departmen
Warning: ideas mixed with satire follow. Concerns about downsizing our
police department might very well vanish if we can succeed in downsizing crime
an equal amount. We could take a page out of the GW Bush Administration play
book and redefine a few crimes out of existence, or perhaps we sh
Forgot to sign my name:
Dennis Plante
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From: "Rybak, R.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mpls Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Mpls] City budget
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:34:18 -0500
I want to put this morning's news regarding the police five year
plan into context.
I do not want to c
This may seem like a small issue in comparision to the daunting task
associated with the necessary upcoming budget cuts facing city
administrators, however, I think there's a high-level of relevance. In
order to achieve spending levels that are in-line with what we can afford,
we should set th
Constance Nompelis wrote:
> Please-please-please do NOT cut Police.
Is it too late to shift funding from the NRP
to the Police Dept.?
Michael Atherton
Prospect Park
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e 22, 2004 10:34 AM
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Subject: [Mpls] City budget
I want to put this morning's news regarding the police five year
plan into context.
I do not want to cut positions in the police department. I want
to add positions, especially by hiring new recurits who relect th
Mayor Rybak:
Thank you for asking our opinions about the budget!
Please-please-please do NOT cut Police.
Please-please-please DO cut CPED!!! They clearly have
cash to spare, which is dangerous and ridiculous in
this time of dwindling funds for the city.
Furthermore, anyone who has ever done
I want to put this morning's news regarding the police five year
plan into context.
I do not want to cut positions in the police department. I want
to add positions, especially by hiring new recurits who relect the
makeup of the city.
But when I, or anyone else, says si
I want to acknowledge Paul Lohman's correction:
> David Brauer wrote:
>
> >The details are grim...greatly reduced community-development funds, a 23
> >percent cut to the cops,
>
> This is really a bit misleading and just one way in which numbers can be
> turned to almost any advantage. The budg
David Brauer wrote:
The details are grim...greatly reduced community-development funds, a 23
percent cut to the cops,
This is really a bit misleading and just one way in which numbers can be
turned to almost any advantage. The budget for police over the next 5
years (2003-2008) will INCREASE
City leaders prep themselves, and others, for $55 million in cuts in
expected spending over the next five years...and that's before the state
cuts any local govt aid.
The details are grim...greatly reduced community-development funds, a 23
percent cut to the cops, delayed fixing of the infrastruct
Brandon Lacy says:
> But, I believe Dyna is way off base when it comes to identifying the
> economic problems in this city with crime. For the last ten years most
crime
> statistics in Minneapolis have dropped and dropped steadily. Why? Because
> the general economy had been in an upswing, people
Brandon Lacy asks:
Does anyone here know exactly how hard it is to get welfare in this
town?
Vicky Heller asks:
Does anyone here know exactly how hard it is to earn an honest dollar
in this town?
Dyna Sluyer states:
We do need to maintain enough of a tax base to fund pension benef
Remember that a lot of the pension problems that are being raised are due to
the downturn in the economy/stock market; NOT because they are OVERLY generous.
It is very frustrating to constantly defend those working in the public sector
and their compensation. With the increase in cost of health
Michael et al,
I agree that there has to be a willingness to learn. But, I've also watched
that willingness to learn be stamped out by tracking, racial profiling, and
concentrated poverty. I've seen this first hand. If all you know and see in
your life is failure, drugs, crime, and poverty th
Actually, it's more of a practical perspective on the
problem. The folks that keep our city working put up with a lot- odd
hours, danger, hard work, etc.. The pay is lousy, so one of the ways
we attract qualified people to these jobs is with a decent pension.
Normally paying these pens
dyna wrote:
> Much has been written on this list lately about our city's
> financial woes, largely concentrating on cutting the budget to
> varying degrees. The problem is that large government and private
> sector entities, be they Amtrak, the Postal Service, International
> Harvester,
We could follow in Brazil's footsteps and default on some of our debts.
Here are some reasons that this makes sense:
Heck, everyone's doing it!
Interest rates are so low, even if we have to pay 1 point more on the
remaining debt, we still come out way ahead. I would rather pay 6% on 1/2
billi
don Lacy
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] City budget woes- a microeconomic view from Crack
> Street North
>
>
> I think Dyna's post has some merit with regards to the need of
> the city to
>
eople living in poverty for so long before we start
to wonder about the circumstances that create poverty and maintain people
living in poverty for generations. Treat the syptoms, cure the disease.
-Brandon Lacy Campos
-Powderhorn Park
>From: dyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL
Much has been written on this list lately about our city's
financial woes, largely concentrating on cutting the budget to
varying degrees. The problem is that large government and private
sector entities, be they Amtrak, the Postal Service, International
Harvester, or Minneapolis have
Excellent, Mike, excellent! Thank you.
And thanks too to Vicky Heller. I wish our newspapers and political party (there
seems only to be one, like on the School Board) would be looking at the record and
making it available to us (and not in a two year old archive that is not freely
accessibl
Part 1.
More bad news on the Mpls. budget scene according to recent article by
Rochelle Olson in the STrib-- The city expects a deficit of $22 million by
2025 in the revenues they use to pay off the Target Center bonds. Then
there are 'needed' improvements (approx. $10-$20 million), that the city
Vicky Heller's post got me to the city website then the budget. Go to the
city sight click budget, it'll get you to lots of PDF docs. Boring
accounting stuff. But it's what you need to know.
There seems to be a gap between 2001 Revenues 493,866,000
and Expenditures
542,690,000
That's a gap of
I know one shouldn't pick at tiny parts of the budget but throwing away
money (in this case $500,000) is always offensive. RT is following the
popular approach of mayors all over the country to appear to take action
against potential terrorists by "protecting" the city water supply.
Nationwide gov
This information is from the City's Finance Department:
The City's Certified Annual Financial Report is available in hard copy by
calling the Finance department at 612-673-2577. The report will be
available on-line Monday July 15th (you should be able to access it by
following the same link previ
It's getting right down to the nitty gritty in budget
talks.
The Mayor is eliminating more than just the Civilian
Review Authority.
The Office of Cultural Affairs is toast. That should
please all those who didn't like it anyway.
There is in a major fight over the Truth in Housing
program.
Joe
Russell's preference for finding savings by restructuring service delivery systems is
mine and probably alot of resdients' preference. I'd recommend a neutral third-party
analysis of the work processes of those departments most likely to produce savings. I
wouldn't be afraid to look at the po
The last time I saw a city budget (Zimmermann's copy) it is a notebook that
is almost 2-3 inches thick - hard to download. Wonder is there is a shorter
summary but if we would miss a lot because I think it's the line items we
need to review.
Annie
East Phillips
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Basic services budgets have been whittled away for several
years now. There may be a couple more things to do in those
areas, but probably no significant savings. The first place
to look for savings would be those areas that had huge
increases in budget over the past several years including
the
David Brauer recently asked the list what would we cut from the City budget
and Mayor Rybak is eliciting budget suggestions from City staff, with a
(free?)lunch to the best suggestions.
I was wondering is there a budget outline we could peruse so that we knew
where the money was spent, and the
Hello Minneapolis how are you doing? I have a question for the list. I know
that there will be no money for the state projects this year and there is
going to be a long battle over state funds. Is there any thing to worry
about regarding the city budget? When does the City of Minneapolis have t
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