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Confusing budget
Have you ever noticed how numbers are misleading..
According to the Custom Budget Report for 2011, the Public Safety Budget total is just under 1.6 million dollars. To me that implies that this number is the total cost of our Public Safety Department.
In reality that is not true It doesn’t account for health insurance for our Police, FICA payments , retirement payments, workers comp. and unemployment costs. It doesn’t even include the cost of Police Liability Insurance .
It seems we have shifted expenses from the Public Safety Department to the General Government Department. This begs the question why? Is this a concerted effort to hide the actual cost of public safety.
I am not suggesting that the figures aren’t correct, or that this isn’t in accordance with acceptable accounting principles. I am suggesting it makes it a lot more difficult for the “Average Joe” to understand the cost of our public safety department. How do we know what the actual cost is if a lot of the expenses are recorded in another department.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the true cost of our Public Safety Dept. is over 2 million dollars instead of the 1.6 million most people think.
Average Joe
Lisbon
Have you ever noticed how numbers are misleading..
According to the Custom Budget Report for 2011, the Public Safety Budget total is just under 1.6 million dollars. To me that implies that this number is the total cost of our Public Safety Department.
In reality that is not true It doesn’t account for health insurance for our Police, FICA payments , retirement payments, workers comp. and unemployment costs. It doesn’t even include the cost of Police Liability Insurance .
It seems we have shifted expenses from the Public Safety Department to the General Government Department. This begs the question why? Is this a concerted effort to hide the actual cost of public safety.
I am not suggesting that the figures aren’t correct, or that this isn’t in accordance with acceptable accounting principles. I am suggesting it makes it a lot more difficult for the “Average Joe” to understand the cost of our public safety department. How do we know what the actual cost is if a lot of the expenses are recorded in another department.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the true cost of our Public Safety Dept. is over 2 million dollars instead of the 1.6 million most people think.
Average Joe
Lisbon
