By: Diane Benjamin
I’ve posts lots of stories about the detailed Bloomington budget for this year. It was all information the Council and the Budget Task Force never saw. Why? They weren’t supposed to know details, it makes cuts easier.
It gets better. Today I received the 2013 detailed budget via the Freedom of Information Act. This is the budget Tari inherited from Steve Stockton, so finding the increases will be easy. I’m waiting for Tari to say one more time “We aren’t doing anything different from years ago”. I’m expecting numerous posts proving him wrong.
Let’s start with Administration.
Current budget – 1 ,197,407.95 Page 41 FY 2017 Budget Detail
2013 Budget: $40,000 in Revenue, $884,179 in expenses for a total of $844,179 FY 2013-11110d Administration
Tari increased Admin spending (1,197,408 – 844,179) $353,229
Salaries this year are: $556,832.00 for 6 Full-time employees (page 27)
Salaries in 2013 were: $355,444 for 5 full-time employees (page 5)
Neither number includes benefits.
It gets even better. Remember all the plans the City makes? All the projections?
2013 included an Admin Budget projection through 2017. The TOTAL ADMIN BUDGET was projected to be $906,122.
Tari spent $291,286 more than projected.
Tari has spent tens of thousands of dollars (if not hundreds of thousands) on Master Plans. Obviously the next Mayor can dump them all.
Tari dumped Stockton’s projections. The next mayor will most likely dump Tari’s.
Get “Limited Government” yet? This is YOUR money being thrown out the window just because they can.
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Administrative bloat. The same thing is happening in higher education.
Administrative Bloat in Higher Education…soooooooooo true!
I’ve read that a portion of the higher education admin bloat can be traced to increased federal reporting requirements. Any chance some of the city’s increases could be attributed to a similar situation? The Obama administration has dumped tons of new regulations on everyone raising costs everywhere.
Remember culture change? I doubt it.
Thanks Obama! Yep, everything is his fault.
There are and have been unfunded mandates dictated by the Federal government but that can’t account for ALL of the local spending increase.
Quick cure: Don’t take federal money
Administrative bloat, at least in higher ed, has been on the rise since the eighties.
Universities would not exist without federal money. Research grants, federal financial aid. Without those two, and just those two, they’d be gone. All of them.
Then they aren’t needed. Education is much more than 4 years at a government school.
So, none of these are “needed?” Interesting…
http://university-discoveries.com/physical-sciences-engineering-and-information-and-computer-sciences
I doesn’t take a 4 year degree wasting time studying everything but engineering etc. Besides, these jobs are now outsourced to cheaper labor.
Yeah, ok.
Part, but not all, of the problem with increases in salaries is the annual, automatic 3% cost of living increase. The addition of highly paid administrative positions account for the rest.