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To:
Speak Out Editor Anniston Star
From: Gene Robinson
Subject: Fund of Good Sense
Ref: “Council
Members Defend Discretionary Spending”
(News Article June 14, 2008)
and “Council
Allocates Windfall for Special Projects”
(News Article May 22, 2004)
and “Audit Shows
Anniston Fell $1.2 millions Short of Projected ’03
Revenues”
(News Article February 8, 2005)
I will
recommend to any future Anniston Council, in which I am
involved, that I will not vote for any
discretionary/special project funding. A council should
be judged by what it does and achieves for the four year
term, not by the flurry activity the last few months
before the upcoming election, due to special funding and
spending by council. Historically, I can not find
another Anniston Council that had a discretionary funds
for their disposal, except for the Howell Administration
in 2004 and, now, again in 2008.
After
the 2004 Election spending spree it was revealed in
February of 2005 that the city was actually short in the
projected revenues by about $1.2 million dollars. The
administration had used inflated figures during that
campaign for revenue statistics. The six month delay of
the 2003 audit was due to a new auditing system that
should not allow a repeat for the current projected
revenues and upcoming election figures.
Gene Robinson
Mayoral Candidate
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