Paul tontillo's budget docs are helpful

I attended council's meeting last night and got to see a series of "one pagers" regarding department finances. A VERY illuminating deck, to say the least. It was very easy to read and very crisp. Paul did a nice job both in the analysis and in the presentation.

Coming out of his presentation, I learned:
-big ideas will be needed along with little ideas. Double sided copies is good and I support any idea that saves $$, but the magnitude of the deficit is just too large
-people cuts are an example of a big cost saving idea, so is income tax credit reduction, so is trash fee increases
-i think closing the deficit should be a combination, a portfolio if you will, of his 3 big ideas. Small levy, small num of layoffs, small reduction in income tax credit, small garbage fee increase, bigger "misc small ideas" maybe as much as 100,000 vs his est of 50,000

Then everyone's equally annoyed :)

I'll try to find and publish a link to these great, helpful docs this week. Update: doc won't be avail until all Dept one pagers are complete. More to come on this.

Nice job, paul. We'll all benefit from your efforts here.


Cortney