Posted on 04/04/2020 2:56:56 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Early projections show the City of Ithaca is due to have a budget shortfall of anywhere between $9 and $20 million dollars resulting from the COVID-19 shutdown.
Mayor Myrick made the statement during a Thursday meeting of Ithaca’s Urban Renewal Agency. With the city’s total budget at $73 million dollars, highest estimates could mean a shortfall of nearly 28%. Myrick calls the numbers staggering and unprecedented.
He says the only way the city can survive is with federal assistance. Calculations from the City Controllers office account for a lack of sales revenue, and parking fees among other items.
Not Ithaca. sob. What we ever do? /s
Ithaca, the strangest small “city” I have ever drove through
Milford, PA comes in 2nd.
However, why don’t they just cut programs and government employees? Do they really need that many coffee drinkers and donut tasters on the pay roll?
I am bathing in schadenfreude right now...
Ithaca is indeed the City of Evil. I play in a musical trio with a couple of neighbors. The female’s father was a teacher at Ithaca college and she grew up there. She is effing nuts! She’s the kind of person who would be totally cool if her 12-year old son came home one day and said he wanted a sex change operation. She is a good singer, though. Of course, we don’t talk politics.
> He says the only way the city can survive is with federal assistance.
How about Gov. “white knight” Cuomo?
And besides that, liberals are always so proud of the utopias that they created, that being out of money is simply impossible in a utopia since it is always so perfect in every possible way...
Guess we’ll have to dump some of the dead wood in city budgets across the fruited plain. Probably 50% could handle the important business, while various “Outreach” and “ Diversity” employees would never be missed.
Slash and burn away all the social consciousness programming for starters. This is going to be a problem for every state and city some more than others. They are all going to cry for taxpayer bailouts. Think of how much NY and LA are 'losing' in sales tax revenues, or what CA is 'losing' on gas taxes alone. Income tax revenue will also surely be way down. When we're on the other side of this the fight will be vicious and a rethink of our values and how money is spent will be essential.
Sorry, Ithaca....we’re all tapped out.
Get assistance from your State, Ithaca! Why should New Mexico, or any other state, rescue you when the whole country is suffering? These people are incapable of seeing anything/anyone beyond their tiny spheres.
University towns like Ithaca have been living in fantasy land for decades and never plan for tomorrow. They should pitch in for the country instead of demanding help.
Ithaca better hope the people they’re hitting up for money don’t get a look at Cuomo’s new budget.
Any sympathy for Ithaca will evaporate.
Time to revisit the concept of small government.
hint ... ALL the townships in that part of NY are going to have a budget shortfall.
Confiscate Cornell and sell it off.
They can pay for their own sanctuary.
Does Cornell pay property taxes, or any sort of taxes? Just wondering. Perhaps the peole.who run Cornell could make a donation to the city?
they have to lay off govt workers, period...no "working from home" nonsense....
maybe next time they have to face govt union contracts they'll stop giving away the future...
Last figure I saw for Cornell’s endowment, before WuFlu, was over 7 billion bucks.
The article cites declines in sales revenue and parking tickets. What is the City of Evil selling? And just how many parking tickets do they issue?
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