Paul,
You need to wake up, put your personal vendetta for me aside, and deal
with the facts I have presented.
We are currently have an $8 million dollar budget deficit. Next year
we will have a $12.5 million dollar budget deficit. If we were in the
corporate world, that would mean that we are BANKRUPT.
If you invested in a company that went bankrupt, who would you hold
accountable? The voting majority of the Board of Directors, that's
who.
Since you (and others) would like some evenhandedness here, let me
offer the following. You were the driving force behind shutting down
the homeless shelter and your main argument was that Asbury Park has
shouldered the burden of all the other surrounding towns for far too
long. You said that it's time that towns like Deal, Avon, Belmar, etc.
pull their weight.
This is a fair argument. Now, in the same way that you do not want to
carry another town's burden, they may feel the same way about us. To
use your logic, every town that is helping to pay our bills could be
saying, "Hey Asbury Park, we are tired of paying for failed policies to
the tune of $8 million dollars a year or more. Get your own house in
order and stop wasting our hard-earned tax dollars."
Given your stance on burden sharing, I would think you would agree with
this sentiment. But, unfortunately, you are only "evenhanded" when it
suits your personal agenda Paul.
Here is the current state of our pending fiscal crisis. I spoke with a
representative from the Department of Community Affairs yesterday at
the League of Muncipalities Convention. The person I spoke with
confirmed that we will be receiving $8 million in aid for 2008. That
leaves us $4.5 million dollars short.
Are you ready to make up this difference for us Paul? If it is passed
on to the tax payers it will cost on average approximately $1300 more
on your tax bill.
It is no wonder that we are in the state we are in with people of your
ilk believing that honestly stating the facts (regardless of who they
implicate) and seeking solutions to our city's most pressing problems
is "irresponsible."
Peace,
Councilman Jim Keady
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