Dictos on public safety tax
(1) Improve the infrastructure to generate more businesses that pay taxes, (2) Identify and eliminate waste and mismanagement in county operations.
(3) I do not approve any tax until the budget process is straightened out.
We must redirect our priorities from an economy based on cheap housing and rampant development to an economy based on environmentally friendly businesses that pay taxes and provide jobs. In the eighties and nineties, Fresno County, debt free and flush with reserves, was the envy among its sister counties in the state of California. Today, the tenth largest county in the state, micromanaged and badly mismanaged is in financial straits, in the bottom of the financial barrel, keeping company with San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles. As I said earlier every department must undergo a cost efficiency audit by an outside consulting firm. That will identify the departments with problems, and will uncover waste and mismanagement, ever present in government. I believe that there will be no need for a public safety tax if we apply this time tested fiscal management procedure.