Budget Cuts

Budget Cutting

Its time to start thinking about next years budget.

The goal shouldn’t be to keep taxes from rising, but rather to reduce taxes as much a possible while keeping the infrastructure essentials for a good standard of living.

While going through this years budget line by line, nothing should be off the table, but, realistically the cuts will have to come from budget lines large enough to absorb the numbers that need to be cut. This brings us to the sacrosanct 800 lb. gorilla in the room.

Lisbon has a police department a town twice our size would be proud to have. I think we need to really ask ourselves if we can still afford such a large public safety department. Do we have rampant crime or some other reason to justify the 1.6 million dollar budget expenditure?

We should give the department heads the figures that need to be cut from their departments and work closely with them in order to realize these budget goals. I also think the new budget should be approved by the voters as a safeguard against a repeat of last years excessive tax hike.

Wouldn’t it be nice to see our taxes decrease in the 2011-2012 tax year ?

Average Joe
Lisbon