{"id":352160,"date":"2010-02-22T23:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:ronkayela.com,2010:\/\/1.949"},"modified":"2010-02-23T00:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:16:28","slug":"rude-awakening-city-hall-discovers-how-much-money-it-wastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352160","title":{"rendered":"Rude Awakening: City Hall Discovers How Much Money It Wastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        One of the more fascinating aspects of City Hall&#8217;s disastrous handling of the budget crisis our public servants created is the mayor and City Council&#8217;s sudden discovery that waste, efficiency, mismanagement, incomprehensible policies are major problems they never addressed.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t inter-connect without heavy investment and&nbsp; thousands of hours of staff time over several years.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><!--Session data--><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"refHTML\"><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ncwKdlgG3jY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ncwKdlgG3jY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MLlT5yZ9t6E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MLlT5yZ9t6E&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more fascinating aspects of City Hall&#8217;s disastrous handling of the budget crisis our public servants created is the mayor and City Council&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}