But continuing to allocate money from the appropriations continues to increase the baseline, no matter how he votes, he is still responsible in part for the ever increasing baseline (substance over symbolic vote). If the money is not all spent form the appropriations, it reduces the following year’s baseline.
“If the money is not all spent form the appropriations, it reduces the following year’s baseline.”
The money WILL be spent, just without any local say in HOW it’s spent.