Time for serious cut-backs at all levels of the municipal government, including retirement obligations.
Reset....Mr. Mayor.
Welcome to the greatest financial challenge, Nashville’s residents reply back to him. So sad, too bad, no mon, no fun. BTW, we want more services.
That’s an excellent way to ensure you are not Mayor again come next election cycle.
What is not on the table for cuts is the $250 million + professional soccer stadium.
Absolutely NO REASON for a city as vibrant as Nashville is to have financial problems. Two words: Mismanagement and Corruption.
There ought to be a law against being a Democrat.
My Response:
Ballot initiative mandating all public employee’s get a 90 day unpaid furlough, then a 25% cut in Salary, elimination of Health Insurance, they can sign up for Obamacare.
wardaddy can attest to the huge jump in Nashville property taxes or the past decade, especially for small businesses. One restaurant owner’s property taxes went for $13,000 in 2013 to $55,000 last year. If this goes through, his property taxes will be over $72,000 a year, which is more than his mortgage payment.
“City grants to nonprofits would bear the brunt of Cooper’s proposed new budget, the Tennessean reported. “
Progressive looting of the taxpayer.
When Democrats start singing the blues raising taxes is all they see to get out of their funk. Like a down, and outer sipping a bottle wrapped in brown paper bag they tilt their heads back, and utter those famous words Democrats are so well known for: “just raise taxes”.
So far the Financial pain of this pandemic has been exclusively bore by private sector employees and small business owners.
The Government types & workers think they are immune, but they are not.
Just see how fast they open the economy when their see tax revenue crash.
a 31.7 percent property tax increase and major cuts...
SO, the folks that have lost their jobs can just absorb a massive tax hike?
Major cuts? Guess where that will be .
Police and fire.
Same mentality in big cities all over.
Cue the housing crisis.
Where does he think the money is coming from when all those people are out of work? It’s just like DemonRats to kick people when they’re down.
“In the end, hard, hard decisions have to be made,” he said. “Everybody is sacrificing in this budget.”
Right. Everybody is sacrificing. Except city employees
As someone else mentioned upthread, it looks like it's time to cut the budgets of fire, police and libraries. Not that I have any problem with any or all of these being cut, but sadly, they'll be the only thing on the table. 'Outreach' for faggots and other liberal causes will be off the table as well. You can probably say goodbye to the idea of having any potholes taken care of unless you live on the same street as a politician. I'm sure they'll have plenty of room though for folks who check how high your grass has grown.
govt workers never ever suffer.....they always get paid...working, not working, it doesn’t matter.....
“The mayor had ruled out cuts to cost-of-living adjustments for city employees.”
Mighty white of her.
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couple of questions Mr. Mayor
1) are city employees required to live in the city?
2) why is cola cut not on the table as well as general pay cuts for all city employees?
3) Why are you not looking to slash employee benefits as well... as in PTO and vacation days.
Amazon destroyed legacy retail and is well positioned to become the largest virtual restaurant overnight. They could offer a free online movie to go with dinner.
It is a small city. How can it possibly take $2.44 billion to run it?