One of the more fascinating aspects of City Hall’s disastrous handling of the budget crisis our public servants created is the mayor and City Council’s sudden discovery that waste, efficiency, mismanagement, incomprehensible policies are major problems they never addressed.
Sure, they asked for reports, studies,analysis but they never bothered to act on them because none of it mattered because they was always money for sweetheart union contracts,developers and contractors.
Those days are over and on Monday,the Council got an earful on problems like the endless duplication of computer and Internet Technology systems that don’t inter-connect without heavy investment and thousands of hours of staff time over several years.
They also found out that their heavy subsidies of $1 dollar a year rent to non-profits in city buildings costs actual money and leaves the city liable as a landlord.
These videos will be instructive in understand just how screwed up your city government is and raise the question of whether you believe they really can fix what broke.
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