Suhm Tells Council She Never Counted Flow Control Dollars When Prepping Budget Preview

• "It's not happening here" could be the motto of the city of Dallas. Progress? "It's not happening here!"

• Suhm knew better than to put that ghost money in her budget,surely there was something going to be done with it,what? I was in Portland and they have bike strip lanes and I called City and what they said seem simple,dedicating roadway,measurements traffic flow test and paint how that cost 16 million?Also city could buy street stripping and assign one man to do nothing but that one job all over city and do private lots and charge fee bring in revenue.They can but pot hole fixing machine like Fort Worth city Council did,only takes on man.Many ways to save and make money,but you need a mind to think about them

• Yeah, Suhm is so full of shit, it stinks all the way on the East Coast...........

• The city is a mess.   Misguided and blind to the problems that have been brewing for many years.  Oh but as the city hall manta states:  "it's not happening here"-well it is and you should have seen it coming but you (the city staff and council) kept your eyes closed and minds on squandering tax dollars on suspension bridges and trying to keep that toll road alive (such a miss guided project).

• You are absolutely correct. Thanks.

• I guess you meant "private sector", as they are already in the "public sector".

• It can cost more to hire and train a new employee than it costs to give the current one a raise.

• Removing the furlough days and getting a raise are two totally different things. No furlough days, which is being proposed for the civilian workforce, means that pay is restored to the level it was before the economy and budget tanked, roughly three years ago. No pay raise. Police and fire will have no furlough days plus a 3% pay raise, because that was agreed upon, which was a pretty good move on their part.  

• I forgot to add $15-18 million into my projected budget. And now, when I lose $15-18 million, I can just say, "oopsy daisy! Something we never 'expected'." Convenient, especially when that $ could go well in other places now.

• Give me a break! It's attitudes like that that are keeping people unemployed. Of course, it should start with businesses loosening up the piles of cash that they are making and actually HIRE people to relieve their over-worked employees. That being said, we keep asking these government workers to provide the same level of service with fewer resources and pretty big sacrifices. Get people more money to spend and more jobs will be created. Making record profits on the backs of your most loyal (or scared) workers won't do anything to revive this economy.

• I do not agree with Suhm that the City must give raises and remove the furlough days.  If any of those employees that were left with a job and benefits after all the layoffs wants to go elsewhere and work, I say let them go.  There are plenty of unemployed qualified people who've been without a decent job who would be more than happy to get those jobs. 

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