The first thing the McHenry County Board did was to discuss projects to preserve current buildings and parking lots, plus new proposals.
All had been vetted by the Facilities Management and Finance Committees, which comprise thirteen of the twenty-four County Board members.
Forty-five minutes was allocated to the discussion.
You can see the project summary below:
Summary of capital projects being considered by the McHenry County Board.
No new proposals.
No new spending.
Fix what is broken.
A link to the details might be helpful.
Now.
Lets see how this works… there were candidates hyping their personal achievement of having reduced the County Board’s budget $23 million… and “created” all those jobs as well.
What they did not bother to tell you was that to reach the $23 million in budget cuts… they played a little thing call the “shell-game.”
In other words, capital projects were slipped out of the equation so they could match the rhetoric.
Most elected officials still do not get it!
The ONLY way to reduce anything government does is to clean house.
Shed the burden of all the programs/services they were never intended to do.
Several of these projects should have been done years ago.
Rather than bonding for cash (borrowing money) to pay for those projects… cut services to match the cost of the projects!
Your public elected many of you believing you are fiscally responsible.
Prove them right!