Millville’s Budget Increase

15 December 2009 @ 7:14 | Posted in » New Jersey, Politics

The Press of Atlantic City today stated the following about the proposed Millville budget:

The increse [sic] was whittled down from 38 cents by cutting programs, combining jobs and losing others through attrition, but officials say it cannot go any lower.

The rest of the article does not mention the health insurance of the City Commission. Furthermore, the 38¢ is the scare number; that is not real. It never existed and should not have been reported the day of the vote.

Commissioner Derella also was quoted as saying:

“The problem is, we’re leaving ourselves extremely close to our line items, there is no room for error,” he said. “If there’s a problem with someone being out for an extended period of time and there’s a need for overtime, that’s a position we don’t want to be in.”

That flies in the face of what Derella said at the City Commission meeting. There he stated that the extra money Millville will pay to cover the public defender that will need to be hired because of conflict of interested will be taken from the new budget. If money is so razor thin, that line item will tank the budget from the get-go.

Consider me skeptical . . .