Standard-Examiner: Ogden Group Pushes Streetcar Route

And... it seems that a Council Leadership that claims to be all about transparency could give us a little more information

By Disgusted

Two separate points:

One... it now appears that we have another trolley car plan being purposed by Sue Wilkerson and company. Is this an intentional effort to muddy up the water or what?

• Ogden group pushes streetcar route

Second the city has done it again when it comes to keeping us residents in the dark; and the City Council seems to go along with it. Why can’t or won’t the Council provide us residents with a copy of the agenda package so we will know what’s going on with our money?

Case in point is on the agenda for this Tuesday’s Council meeting, “7. Public Hearing: a. Budget Opening and Amendment to Capital Improvement Plan”:

• City Council Agenda - April 6, 2010

The proposed ordinance 2010-11 specifically, (Sorry I intended to include all the wording but I am having cut and paste software communication problems). Basically though all the information provides is that the city administration wants to amend the budget and Capital Improvement Plan because of gross increases in anticipated revenues and the city wants to transfer the money to another departments from the department where the surplus is being supposedly generated as “detailed in the body of the ordinance” and that the some is 3.1 million dollars. No indication of what department it is coming from nor any indication of what department or project it’s going to.

Frankly I’m a little suspect about Ogden City having any kind of surplus when I see that the State of Utah, our very own Weber County and just about every city that surrounds us or city in the state for that matter is cutting back on services and employees because of budget shortfalls. I’m more likely to think that we as residents are having our services cut back further to support Godfrey’s pet projects, or that the city is over charging us residents for some of the services that it is providing, i.e. the administration is using this surplus as a rainy day fund for his projects. Either way, it looks fishy and I want to know more about this.

Seems to me that a Council Leadership that claims to be all about transparency could give us a little more information.