Dictos on offices
Based on the very limited information currently available to me, I rank the morgue as number one priority, food and safety second and offices third.
Unfortunately, non-incumbent candidates cannot make intelligent priority decisions because the county makes it a habit to not release up-to-date financial data to the public. When in financial crisis, management needs daily information to see the direction it is headed. One would expect the county has such information, but the public and the non-incumbent candidates do not. The way things are playing out, I anticipate such information will be released to the public in March of 2009, long after the June 3, 2008 election and the swearing-in ceremony. As an accountant, I make priority decisions based on sound financial data. Unless I am provided with that data, I cannot give unequivocal answers to these questions. I don’t know how deeper in deficit we will be at the close of the current fiscal year. In fact, prioritizing spending may be academic—for all we know, the County may already be insolvent.