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OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK – PART 1
For my next three articles, I am going to show the people of Lisbon what lengths our management will go to conceal how they spend our tax dollars. The first article will demonstrate how much the town budget was inflated in order to provide money to purchase what I call “Toys for Boys”.
Have you ever wondered why the town council approved the transfer and the carry forward of funds less than two months into the new fiscal year? Below are the two sheets provided by the Finance Director? One is to the Public and one is to the council. Take a close look and you will see the numbers do not match. It is very difficult to follow along at council meetings when you don’t have the right sheet. It is even more difficult to try and find out information such as what accounts these transfers were put into.
Why two different sheets? If the numbers had been updated why wasn’t the Public provided with the updated sheets?
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Next take a close look at how much money was carried forward. This is a large amount of money which apparently was not taken into consideration in the 2012-2013 budgets. So if you add these amounts into the 2012-2013 budget management has inflated their budget at taxpayers’ expense. Does anyone want to tell me again why we had to have a tax increase this year with so much money being carried forward?
It is impossible to tell which amounts were transferred into which accounts by looking at these sheets. So why did the town council approve these transfers?
In Part 2 you will see the response by the Finance Director when I asked what accounts some of these amounts were transferred into.
Larry Fillmore
Concerned Citizen
4 comments:
The usual tactic at the Town Office is to inflate accounts enough so that the following years' budget reaps the rewards. The legal account is always underestimated, so money will be needed to adress this by using money from maybe GA or a PW account etc. Other accounts with balances left prior to June 30th are picked clean, whether the items are needed or not. This is how local gov't in Lisbon works. Spend everything you can in order to get more, or at least the same amount in the next year. Brooks is the king of this manipulation.
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