the budget

These won't make me very popular with a lot of people, but here goes.

Some suggestions to save the city money-
1. Lose the skatepark, it's a bad idea in a bad location; to have kids with skateboards or skates cross a major four lane highway is absolutely insane.
2.Lose the new garbage idea, spending 3 million to save $100,000 per year is ludicrous.
3. Lose the Aldermen at large, less squabbling, more efficient. It seems like duplication to me.
4. Lose Prairie Heights, get out before we have millions invested in a moneypit. We don't need the work done for buildings that won't be built.
5. Lose perks to developers, let them pay for roads, improvements, and taxes. If government gets less involved, business will prosper on it's own.
6. Keep the building inspecters. It may seem frivolous to some, but the do have an import function. Toughen the law so they have more authority instead of just threats. The slum lords will hate that.
7. Collect outstanding debts, ballpark rent, library loan, parking tickets. This is a no-brainer.
8. Don't saddle firefighters with inspections, you must lay awake at night to think this drivel up. One big fire and you will see the error of your ways.
9. Don't cut any jobs involving police, we have a crime problem in certain areas, and there aren't enough now. Remember all the robberies when the Presidential candidates were in town.
10. Pare down the city departments that have too many people doing too litle work. You know who they are.