{"id":705,"date":"2012-07-08T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/second-and-final-budget-hearing-lcc-2012-06-26.html"},"modified":"2012-07-08T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T18:21:56","slug":"second-and-final-budget-hearing-lcc-2012-06-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/second-and-final-budget-hearing-lcc-2012-06-26.html","title":{"rendered":"Started early, no new information, no questions: Second and final budget hearing @ LCC 2012-06-26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your last chance to hear about the budget for Lowndes County was 26 June 2012, <\/a> just before the Commission’s Regular Session. It went really fast; even faster than the first budget hearing.<\/a> And, as you can see, this second hearing started three minutes early:<\/a>\n4:57 Eastern, before the public notice time of 5PM.<\/p>\n

Here’s the actual budget.<\/a> In this second hearing, Finance Director Stephanie Black<\/a> sped through her slides, so for more explanation see the videos the first budget hearing.<\/a> This time she did allude to a budget adjustment coming up in the immediately-following Regular Session<\/a>, but she didn’t say what it was. The second time she mentioned it, she said “We’ve received some information”<\/a> about a revenue reduction, but she didn’t say what that information was. Commissioners either\n <\/a>\nalready knew what it was, or didn’t care, because nobody asked any questions.<\/a> It’s almost like the Commission doesn’t want us knowing what they’re thinking of doing with our money until they’ve already decided.<\/p>\n

See also the previous post about Public Works expenditures.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a video playlist:<\/a><\/p>\n