San Antonio Strip Clubs: Budget process: Time for overhaul
September 27, 2009… Enlist citizen experts. Ask financial experts in private business and nonprofits to examine city government for potential savings. Such a process worked for the Duval County public schools.
- Shared the sacrifices. All city employees, including police and fire, should make sacrifices, just as those in private business have done.
- Revive Taxwatch report. Partner with Florida TaxWatch and give renewed life to their financial review of city finances.
- Face up to pension realities. Even when reductions are accepted at the bargaining table, some committed source of funding should be found for pensions.
- Examine uncollected taxes. Millions of dollars in uncollected commercial property taxes are available.
Sort out tax exemptions
. Work with state legislators on the property tax exemptions granted to private businesses on aviation authority land, such as the strip bar and pet business.