God knows vacations entail, so it should be a holiday.
I’m talking about the end of the year, the vacation that elected leaders take after incorporating the year’s budget.
Before that, there’s a contract to get you out the door. Ah, do you have any decks to clear?
The Pima County Board of Supervisors normally holds meetings to vote on 35 to 45 items, excluding consent items and additional clauses. That’s a lot of money for local governments that are operating as usual.
It’s 93 this week. Super athletes have to run 93 errands before donning their swimwear, applying zinc oxide to their noses, and getting ready to paddle in the beach-adjacent waters. Aside: Dear Tucson Residents, Water is what happens when two hydrogen atoms combine with one of her oxygen atoms to form Dasani.
None of these agenda elements are a big deal. I went through them carefully and found no contracts with Lesher Industries or car dealerships involving Steve Christie.
This is both the end of the year and the work that must be done before the new fiscal year that begins on July 1st. This storm of contracts, spending and subsidy acceptance brings another key takeaway during budget season.
Spending.
What the board is doing now is diverting budgeted funds. Therefore, Visit Tucson is acting as the county’s official tourism promoter and, under state law, earns half of the county’s bed tax revenue. They will earn $1.5 million at the start of the 2023-24 fiscal year. The county will also vote to accept the bill. $70,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation To address racial disparities in Pima County Jail.
a budget It’s a shopping list. Expenses are grocery bill receipts. It is what is actually spent. Even if budgeted, elected leaders must vote to actually spend all the money that walks out the metaphorical door. In some cases, the board may use its appropriations authority to withhold funds from departments run by elected leaders such as sheriffs and county attorneys.
It happens because someone started a terrible match with the board and super quickly learned to write checks. There is no “if”, no “but”, no “but”.
The only thing the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors will do during a meeting is to approve spending.
There is also such a thing as “vacation”. Once the governing body budgets, it wants to take a vacation. The Tucson City Council and Pima County Board of Supervisors will not meet again until July 11th, and their regular first Tuesday of the month meeting will not be held on July 4th. The Pima Community College District Board of Trustees is completely over Marana and Oro Valley have no meetings scheduled for July (but that doesn’t mean there won’t be meetings at some point).
Yes, there is such a thing as short-timer syndrome.
Please take my words to heart. Pima County regulators will try to expedite its vast agenda. And Republican Steve Christie will pull out about a dozen spending proposals and try to interrogate them.
That’s good. Every good board or council has at least one person who says, “Hey, what’s that about?” It keeps staff motivated.
So yes, the county task force will approve a budget of $1.8 billion.
minor changes have been made Set an interim budget that sets an overall spending limit.
The Green Valley Court of Justice, a pirate ship near Elephant Head run by former Republican superintendent and now troublemaker Ray Carroll and former Democratic constables Joe Ferguson and Christine Randall, is facing an increasing number of cases. You will receive an additional $60,000 to deal with it.
An additional $30,000 was donated to the Emergency Management Agency. County Governor Jean Lecher withdrew $90,000 from county funds to offset projected inflation.
over budget sheriff
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos’ division ended the 2022-23 fiscal year nearly $3 million over budget.
what happened? The explanation for the record, which Mr. Lesher accepts without fuss or fuss, is that lawmakers had to work overtime due to understaffing. Inflation increased construction and maintenance costs, and so did food costs at the Pima County Jail.
Heinz has the right idea about patrons
There’s a bit of a dispute between the county and manager Matt Heinz over who gets the money to build affordable housing.
The regional commission responsible for addressing the housing shortage recommended that the Southwest Nonprofit Housing Corporation and Family Housing Resources be awarded contracts. Heinz took up the cause of the Pima County Land Trust and longtime advocacy group Casa Maria. He calls his plan a way to spread contracts across the four highest-scoring proposals.
Mr. Lescher is adamant about the commission’s decision to award only the top two applicants contracts to build 107 units and renovate 96 more at a total cost of $2.6 million.
On the one hand, Heinz should not do this kind of sponsorship. On the other hand, he should absolutely be involved in trying to shoot Cash at Casa Maria.
Those who run soup kitchens deserve to eat good old-fashioned loot.
The staff there could make more money doing other things, but instead devote their time to helping people with capitalist business ends. Casa Maria’s leader, Brian Flagg, has made a career as a highly capable (and largely unpaid) lobbyist and mob agitator. Prosperity-seeking Americans would be wise to lure him with at least $5 million a year and a private jet.
I swear, I really need Peepers at Casa Maria to stay unindicted.
Oooh. oh oh
And there are also fireworks. He’s two weeks away from July 4th, so it’s time to say oh oh oh.
Applications are scheduled for June 30, 8:50 PM, 49er Country Club, 12000 E. Tanque Verde Road. Tucson Speedway, 11955 S. Harrison Road, starting July 2nd at 9pm. Tucson Country Club, 2950 N. Camino Principal, set at 9:00 pm, July 4th. The Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive, starting July 4 at 9pm. Skyline Country Club, 5200 E. Saint Andrews Drive, July 4, 9:00 p.m. Aho/Gibson Volunteer Fire Department Show July 4, 7:00 p.m., Freeport Slug, 400 Taladro Ave, Ajo Scheduled at the dump.
Marana, Oro Valley, South Tucson Budget
The town councils of Oro Valley and Marana will also vote to adopt the final budget. Both include healthy endowment balances, as Oro Valley will start off with $87 million unused from fiscal 2023. Marana, on the other hand, started with a whopping $207 million in the bank.
Both are impressive numbers considering Oro Valley plans to spend $148.5 million next year and Marana’s budget cap is in place. at $336 million – More than $100 million more than this year.
Marana spends some of its spending on capital projects, the largest of which is a $60 million “multi-generational community and swim center.” Overall, Marana spent an additional $84.1 million on its capital. The increase in water bills increased his total corporate capital by $12.8 million.
Oro Valley’s budget is only $700,000 more More than the town spent last year. The town has a more conservative economic outlook for revenue over the next year. The Oro Valley also did not have a permanent town manager as staff and council worked out the budget.
South Tucson’s interim budget calls for a 3% increase in city sales tax, which could bring in an additional $116,623 to the town. So if you’re going to raise taxes, you’d be better off getting a little more out of the $6.8 million city budget.
South Tucson’s sales tax is currently 5%, but if increased by 3% (instead of 3 percentage points) it will be fixed at 5.015% in 2024.
This move makes sense. South Tucson is only one square mile in area, and even setting up a business outside the city limits is close enough to city dwellers. Driving out the business would worry city leaders. Tucson surrounds South Tucson and the city tax is only 2.6 percent.
The city’s spending plans are little moved compared to this year. The largest amount of new spending will be $221,000 for dispatch and wireless upgrades.
The Southern Tucson legislature is scheduled to vote Tuesday on approving the city’s interim budget, which sets spending limits.
give them a little credit
The City of Nogales voted to increase the minimum wage to $15.04 an hour, totaling $31,295. The increase will take effect from 1st July.
Local governments today are the same as before. They are having trouble finding workers and need to pay more.
Congress will also be asked to adopt credit card policy It looks like it should have been adopted 30 years ago.
Once approved, City Council members will be able to use City credit cards when working on City business, and all expenses must be presented for approval at regular meetings. Each expenditure on urban plastics needs to be funded by a receipt.
Expenses not supported by proper background material or for city-specific purposes are paid by individual City Council members.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors will vote to accept the unfunded liability of the new Public Safety Pension Plan.
Municipalities in Arizona are making payments from Phoenix to the deficient State Public Safety Pension Retirement Plan Fund. The Board oversees how the Fund is invested and builds wealth within the system to help pay future debt.
The fund itself is centrally managed, but each city, town, and county must pay the same amount that will one day be paid out in the form of an annuity.
The county should have sufficient funds in the system to cover 100% of future payments and currently Santa Cruz County is 90 percent. That’s not half bad. A few years ago, the stock of the fund as a whole was below 50%.
The county now has to spend $296,026 annually over 20 years to make up that 10 percentage point shortfall. Again, good luck Santa Cruz County. The city of Tucson has to spend tens of millions of dollars a year to get Reach to get the “100% funding stamp.”
Type so figuratively. No such stamp exists.
