This of course is no shocker to me, I have been covering this for over 6 months. Every month finance director Eugene ‘Montgomery Burns’ Rowenhorst would come before the city council and say the same thing, “Uh, yeah, um, we are down, um, but we are watching it closely, um, and we will wait until the Christmas shopping season and we may come out ahead (paraphrasing).” Well it did not happen. The councilors would repeatly ask what cuts were being made and his answer would always be the same (see above). Well no cuts were made, business as usual, now the next mayor and council will have to try to fix the turd sandwich that was created, as Staggers so colorfully pointed out;
“Whoever the new mayor is, this person will have to take a look at the budget right away to see if there is a course correction needed,” Staggers said.