Letter on the City Budget

Regarding this Cities deficit, you on the City Council and the Mayor screwed the pooch on this one. You

have to have a cognitive disorder not see the economy was not growing as fast as needed and city

revenues would suffer minus the food tax. The reduction in the Cities bond rating was the canary in the

cold mine and your response was to fiddle while Phoenix burned. You spent money needlessly:

changing conversion lanes, too many consultants, Melrose sign, not ending pension spiking etc. You

were too worried about the Cites image and pandering to your constituencies in an election cycle than

doing the job. What is the image of a broke City with an inferior bond rating? What do you think your

constituents think of you now?