Well,
I hate to break this to you, but I TOLD YOU SO!! Despite all the harassment and
false accusations from the naysayers, as usual again I have been proven right. This
time, not only do we have another budget deficit, but it’s one of over $12
million!! And, as usual they choose to handle this by diving into the reserve
fund to cover their tracks. As a matter of fact, this time they took $12,100,000.00 out of the reserve fund
just to balance the budget!! This deficit is $100,000.00 MORE than we
predicted last year! What is even worse is that next year the deficit is
predicted to be over $15,000,000.00!! Even more interesting is that this was
stated by the mayor, during the meeting yesterday! Speaking of the meeting,
notice how short and sweet it was?? “His Majesty” just gave his “hearts and
flowers” speech to the masses, without ANY of the department heads giving their
usual reports. His Majesty, even evidently had the nerve to “pass the buck” on
the financial condition of this town, by BLAMING IT ON HIS PREDACESSOR!! I also
found it interesting that at least 30 members of the Bensalem Police showed up
to this meeting, concerned over their jobs. Apparently, they were concerned
over lay-offs, and I wouldn’t blame them. Maybe they saw something in Lt.
Campellone’s departure??? Talk about a first!
I just have a small question on this
budget Your Majesty. If the Township’s budget is supposed to be $30,000,000.00
and $22,000,000.00 is for the police department (based on last year’s police
department budget), then that would leave less than $8,000,000.00 for the rest
of the government. I was under the impression that the budget was over $65
million!!I don’t know about anyone else, but something is not right!
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