Comments on: SBSun OpEd: Counties can’t keep backfilling funds http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2010/01/28/sbsun-oped-counties-cant-keep-backfilling-funds/ Politics, Government and Business in Southern California's Inland Empire Mon, 21 May 2012 09:55:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymoushttp://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2010/01/28/sbsun-oped-counties-cant-keep-backfilling-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-529 Anonymous Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:24 +0000 http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/?p=2194#comment-529 SB-90 established a payback channel for "state mandated programs". We should defund programs the state mandates, but does not pay for, citing that they (the state) is not following the law (SB-90). Of course, before doing so you'll want to notify The Comission on State Mandates. This will save the county quite a bit. Eliminate the car allowance currently enjoyed by many county employees, including The Board. I know certain elected officials are "on duty" 24/7, but that doesn't mean the tax-payers should have to pay for them to have a car. Find a way to cut the pay of school administrators. Close non-essential county offices every other friday. We should have implemented furloughs this fiscal year, so that we could have had a savings to cushoin the blow next fiscal year. But we didn't, in the name of "maintaining levels of service". Let's learn from this mistake. Don't lay people off, which increases the unemployment rate and makes the economy worse, do furloughs instead. SB-90 established a payback channel for “state mandated programs”. We should defund programs the state mandates, but does not pay for, citing that they (the state) is not following the law (SB-90). Of course, before doing so you’ll want to notify The Comission on State Mandates. This will save the county quite a bit.

Eliminate the car allowance currently enjoyed by many county employees, including The Board. I know certain elected officials are “on duty” 24/7, but that doesn’t mean the tax-payers should have to pay for them to have a car.

Find a way to cut the pay of school administrators.

Close non-essential county offices every other friday.

We should have implemented furloughs this fiscal year, so that we could have had a savings to cushoin the blow next fiscal year. But we didn’t, in the name of “maintaining levels of service”. Let’s learn from this mistake. Don’t lay people off, which increases the unemployment rate and makes the economy worse, do furloughs instead.

]]> By: Unwilling...http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/2010/01/28/sbsun-oped-counties-cant-keep-backfilling-funds/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Unwilling... Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:32:31 +0000 http://inlandpolitics.com/blog/?p=2194#comment-395 And if I could get the money back from Burum on the colonies deal I would. Really, if Bill and I could just take that all back with a do-over, we would. Sincerely, and I do mean sincerely, Paul. P.S., don't pay any attention to the papers on that little flight with me and Deveraux. That was nothing, really. I promise to pay that all back. Honestly. And if I could get the money back from Burum on the colonies deal I would. Really, if Bill and I could just take that all back with a do-over, we would. Sincerely, and I do mean sincerely, Paul.

P.S., don’t pay any attention to the papers on that little flight with me and Deveraux. That was nothing, really. I promise to pay that all back. Honestly.

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