Fort Smith city government, taxpayer distribution money policy.
November 2, 2015
It appears they have no policy except tax & spend, never a “make do” policy.
Re: City Manager Dingman stating to the TR last week that the Board was not to use this year’s General Fund remaining balance in calculating the new budget. Why? At the very least an obfuscation and lacking in ethics
Therefore: EXACTLY HOW MUCH TAXPAYER MONEY IS LEFT FROM THIS YEAR’S GENERAL FUND, THAT THE MAYOR & CITY BOARD ARE PROPOSING TO LEAVE, UNACCOUNTED FOR (HOW MUCH?) IN THE GENERAL FUND AND NOT TO BE USED AS A START FIGURE IN NEXT YEAR’S BUDGET.
On whose authority did this directive originate –Dingman, the Board, the City Treasurer or the City Attorney, or…..?
This type of misconduct always sets the stage for more taxes. Whatever the amount, $1,000 or millions, it needs to be accounted for in next year’s budget, to the penny & taxpayers made aware of the exact amount of the surplus.
Last week I posed a number of questions related to depositing this year’s budget surplus into the General Fund and what makes this act even more sinister is the horrific debt this government has incurred due to malfeasance, misfeasance, etc. The article can be found at arkansasfreedom.net.
Another matter pertaining to tax dollars—thievery at worst.
The Arkansas General Assembly empowered themselves several years ago with a bank account known as The General Improvement Funds (GIF) which has most recently been shown some interest by the FBI. Wonder what got their attention?
This year the legislature set aside $20 million for Gov. Hutchinson to use as he sees fit, and another $20 million for the General Assembly members to use as they see fit.
More ethical corruption and political thievery. If the legislators policy is to give 35 members of the Senate and the 100 Representatives equal amounts, that would be $150,000 each, but I believe state senators receive considerably more. This is nothing more than a vote buying, power buying, corrupt scheme.
I’m sure Senator Jake Files will come forth and relate to his constituency how he has divvied up his shares over the years he has been in the legislature, as a Rep and a Senator.
What would you bet that Files has dumped in thousands to the so-called “private enterprise” (huge lie) known as Griffin & Sicard’s Marshal Museum and to the financially bloated UAFS? Sooner rather than later, if the MM is completed the taxpayers will inherit it in toto.
Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net