COCOA BEACH, FLA. CANCELS FIREWORKS DISPLAY DUE TO SLOWDOWN IN ECONOMY

Cocoa Beach, Fla. will save $70,000 when
they cancel their 2008 fireworks display.

Nolensville,TN. will spend $5 to $10,000 and
ignore the fact that the town budget had to be
cut $300,000. Oh yes, a certain percentage
of the $10,000 will be donations.

You decide would you rather blow-up ten
grand or more in fireworks or give it to the
local schools and library--that suffered a
cut in funds from the town budget.

In a recent newspaper article the Mayor said
the budget committee must have done a very
thorough job because no one came out to the
meeting to ask any questions.

Here's the big dirty little secret...at every town
hall meeting local citizens are only allowed
a few short minutes to ask any questions.
And the town board is not required to answer
any questions from citizens.

SOOOOOOOOoooo since no copies of the
budget are provided to local citizen/voters
prior to the budget meeting. Nobody knows
what is going on with the budget?

Now you know why nobody attends the
town hall meetings! Here's a scary thot!
What if local citizen/voters demanded a
"line-by-line" explanation of the budget
in an open public meeting where the
board was required to answer every
question from local citizens.

Here's a starter question...How much
money will eventually be spent on the
new Rocky Fork bridge and road?

Why hasn't the board demanded that
the consultants and contractors be
penalized and/or fined for the mistakes?

You can come up with many more items
to question the Mayor and/or board.