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	<title>Councilman Jim Daly &#187; Budget</title>
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		<title>The 2008 Budget, Part I.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual ritual of budget preparation was worse than any of the several I have participated in. Commonsense was not present at the table. Indeed, the budget was viewed as a tool to offset the economic pressures we all face at home. 
Brief history: the staff begin work on the budget as early a June, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cmdaly.wordpress.com&blog=239636&post=38&subd=cmdaly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Budget Adopted &#8211; 0.2 Mill Increase, but not without some damage.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s over! It&#8217;s unsatisfactory, but the 2008 budget was approved by Council in a 4-3 vote. I voted against it. One of my colleagues said at the meeting that this budget was a gamble. Amen to that. 
More on the topic later.
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		<title>Budget Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Morning Times published an article in their November 22nd edition entitled &#8220;Daly, Thomas weigh in on budget crisis.&#8221; (Thomas is Mayor Denny Thomas. Mayor Thomas is a former councilman having served on the council for the most of the last two decades). The author, Warren Howeler, asked Mayor Thomas and I three questions, noting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cmdaly.wordpress.com&blog=239636&post=32&subd=cmdaly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Council Meeting &#8211; November 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the late posting, but I&#8217;ve been reloading the operating system and various sundry programs onto my tablet for the last week. 
This month&#8217;s council meeting was held on the 19th. After the usual actions (minutes approval, authorizing paying the bills, and reviewing committee reports), the council:

Accepted Mrs. Mary Muffley&#8217;s resignation from the Planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cmdaly.wordpress.com&blog=239636&post=31&subd=cmdaly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local Services Tax?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest problems facing boroughs in Pennsylvania is revenue. Sayre collects tax revenue from Earned Income Tax and property taxes. And those are limited sources. The Commonwealth legislature is &#8220;working&#8221; on the problem, but no solution is in sight.
Our borough, as mentioned in an earlier post, is facing serious infrastructure issues. As an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cmdaly.wordpress.com&blog=239636&post=16&subd=cmdaly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Time!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Council received the first draft of the proposed budgets for the General Fund and the Sewer Fund. There is a tax increase and a sewer rate increase. I will not identify the proposed increases at this time since Council has not had the opportunity to review it. That will happen next week.    [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cmdaly.wordpress.com&blog=239636&post=13&subd=cmdaly&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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