"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones." Machiavelli
Day 5 - Budget TalksBy DIA, Section News
Looks like the topics will be picking themselves. Today its the budget fiasco. To prepare for day five's posting on the city of Albany budget, start with this letter to the editor for the city clerk. The money quote:
For those citizens who come to a Common Council meeting, they will see an engaged and participatory body.Luckily the council responded quickly to our FOIL request for the content of the notes that are so diligently jotted. Unfortunately they redacted the authors of the notes so you have to decided which members wrote them. The notes. "why are citizens so damn chatty? Before Jerry made me run for this position I'd never even attended one of these meetings. Don't these people have anything better to do?"
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