Jennings on Spending
By DIA, Section News
Posted on Mon May 05, 2008 at 03:37:59 PM EST
Now that the Mayor is talking about cutting spending, it would be a good time to review his past statements on the finances of the city. Remember this one?
It's a good day for seeing the true Mayor Jennings. Calsolaro proposes that we shouldn't borrow money to subsidize golfers.
Common Council member Dominick Calsolaro says for every club that swings at the Capital Hills Golf Course in Albany, taxpayers are paying for it. The course, he says, isn't making enough revenue to cover operating costs so Albany taxpayers end up footing the bill.
“I don’t know, at this time when the city is borrowing 8 million dollars from the fund balance to balance next year's budget, if the taxpayers should be supplementing the golfers at the golf course,” said Calsolaro.
To the mayor, that is "crazy talk".
“That sounds crazy what Dominick is proposing, plain and simple he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,"
So, Calsolaro wants to look at ways to cut expenses and the mayor says that is crazy. Meanwhile, taxes went up this year and the mayor still is borrowing more than $8 million in the budget and increasing our debt load. The budget is a financial disaster. It is unsustainable. Not so says Borrow and Spend Jennings.
“I put a responsible budget together with the least amount of impact on the taxpayers in the city.”
According to Jennings this is a responsible budget. He proposed NO cost savings. He refuses to cut jobs of current unfilled positions. We are borrowing money to subsidize golfers. And yet anyone who proposes cuts in the budget is "crazy" according to the mayor.
Go read the article. See how Troy and Schnectady actually make money with their golf courses. Listen to the mayor accuse Calsolaro of being a hypocrite because his kids go to the Lincoln Park pool (nice of Jerry to bring Calsolaro's kids into the discussion, classy).
PS. Jennings says maybe Calsolaro should recommend cutting down the size of the common council if he wants to save money. Despite being a lame attack by the Mayor as Calsolaro has made many recommendations on how to cut the budget, is a weak attack because Calsolaro has proposed reducing the number of common council members in the past.
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