One Commissioner publicly asked if I was willing to pay for an Inspector General. We're all paying already for not having one. One Commissioner privately said it was unfriendly to have an IG in a small town.
It's "unfriendly" to have a City budget grow 35% in five years while our small town's population only grows 3%, expecting taxpayers to believe that because there has been no increase in our "millage rate," City Commissioners are somehow doing us all a favor.
What principled reasons exist for this rapidly rising and bloated budget?
Why is there not more competitive bidding?
Why is there not Zero Based Budgeting?
Why is there not openness and transparency, starting with publishing all City agenda packet documents on the City's website (as our Countyand Water Management Districts do)?
Does our City have something to hide?
Is it ashamed of the shallow reports provided to City Commissioners?
Is it unable to articulate defenses and answer questions formed after reading its agenda packet?
Our City government is gold plated, lacking in openness and accountability, and lacking in compassion.
There is no whistleblower protection.
There are no watchdogs, only lapdogs.
That's why we need an independent Inspector General, to audit and investigate.
No more white elephants.
No more junkets.
The St. Johns River Water Management District has an Inspector General (IG).
The State of Florida's agencies have IGs.
Federal agencies have IGs.
President Ronald Reagan said he wanted IGs "meaner than a junkyard dog."
He recognized that governments grow fat and lazy without auditors and investigators.
We have no "junkyard dog" in our City government.
Our five City Comissioners are lapdogs.
Only lapdogs would vote unanimously to give a heck-of-a-job award to the City Manager in the midst of a pending criminal investigation.
Only lapdogs would refuse to provide annual performance evaluations for the City Manager.
Only lapdogs would attack and censor people asking questions about the City Manager's 20,000 cubic yards of illegal dumping in the Old City Reservoir, without answering questgions.
Every single City Commissioner ran as a reformer.How many of them deserve that title now? None? What do you reckon?
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