Tonight's City Commission Meeting

Tonight's Commission meeting has a light agenda and I am not sure if my schedule today will permit me to attend. However, for ease of access, I thought that I would post the agenda here. You will notice that under Consent Agenda Item B there is a request from the City Manager to allocate almost $325,000 from other accounts to make up for expenditures that were incurred, checks cut and paid beyond the level authorized by the City Commission. We can only be thankful that these oversights were from a previous administrative staff and that this is part of the cleansing process occurring in the Finance and other City departments.

It makes you wonder about all those years and projects that have taken place before. How much was spent that the Commission and the public were not aware of? How many dollars were spent either in error or due to contractors' lapses and the like - working on behalf of the City? In this request, the most significant overrun was in street improvements - almost a quarter of a million dollars. Let's try and find out why this happened.

Let's hope that this represents the last example of an "after the fact" approval of funds.