08-18-2012, 10:25 AM
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Originally posted by wax
Good point about the $. In his term Harry Kim took the budget from $198 million to $402 million. He dramatically increased County employment. Like Billy or not he has without complaint spent four years getting size and cost of government under control....
I like Harry Kim. He has always had a strong environmental agenda. But it is hard to ignore the 200% (that the percentage right?) of increase in our county budget at a time when many many people are struggling... unless you have a county union job security.... On the other hand, Kim had a larger tax base (real property tax overall was higher with higher appraisals).
Billy has kept it under control although I could more firmly vote his way if he had reduced it by a large percentage, too.
What to do? What to do?