Remember last November's Boro Proposed Budget

Well, the "final" numbers put the Borough's budget at around $200,000.
But, did you know that that document is more like a fanciful fiction than the legal truth that it is supposed to be?

"How is this?" you ask.
Well, here is how.
When Chucky and Linda "prepare" the proposed budget, they leave a lot of routine revenue out. In fact, they leave out hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that they know full well will be coming in to the Boro.

And, apparently, they leave a lot of the Borough's expenses out, too. Don't believe me?

Well, just look for yourself: look at the OTHER budget report that they are required by law to file every year: the Borough's annual financial report and audit to the state's Dept. of Community and Economic Development.

You can see Linda and Chuck's 2007 filing below by clicking on the docstoc link. I have even highlighted the "bottom lines".

And just remember these two things when you are looking through this report:

First, their proposed budget for 2007 would have been even less than last year's $200,000. So, Chucknuts and LindaLu are telling the state that the Boro has a budget that is 400% of what they tell us the Proposed Budget is. Why mislead us like that? If they urge that everyone is so happy with their delivery of PUBLIC services, then why hide the truth from us?

Second, when even just one of us says that its ok for public resources to be used outside of its legal purpose, you are also making your Boro neighbors pay for that. You may be willing to pay the extra costs that it is taking to keep a fulltime crew of 4 public works staff in a municipality that doesn't have any buildings or any public land, that doesn't have any sewer or water service responsibilities, or any paper trail evidence or actual evidence of sharing between government entities, but your retired 80 year old neighbor may not be willing to subsidize these illegal activities.


Mt Gretna DCED Report 2007