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Dennis Hays Report in Full: -- 2010 Budget Message from Dennis Hays

In a resent letter written by Dennis Hays is a plan to over come the financial disasters that our Country faces. Within this letter he puts forth a plan or a way to make due the 2010 Budget in these financial rough times. I have read this several times and not once does he talk about stopping giveaways or incentive plans that have plagued taxpayers since 2000. The Real Budget Message from Rotten Politics

I will attach the full letter for you to read and I will take exerts from the letter to make comments about to help you understand these sad point or his sad solutions to cut the, run away, budget we Taxpayers face in 2010.

Within the introduction Hays Writes and I Reply.

· Unlike the federal government, the Unified Government can not go into debt. It can’t spend more money than collected. By law, the Unified Government must have a balanced budget. Achieving that goal requires a combination of deep budget cuts and a focused look for new ways to bring in more revenue.
1. Answer is if we can’t go into debt why are we $2.6 Billion in debt? 2006 Debt Report & Climbing for WYCO from the State
2. Not once in this plan does he talk about salary cuts for Executives.
3. The top 100 employees have salaries of $100 Million cut these do nothing employees 50% and same $50 Million?

· Unless the economy makes a dramatic recovery in the next few months, the State of Kansas budget problem will be equally bad, perhaps even worse, next year.
· Property tax collections have dropped by $5.5-million as a result of a 7% reduction in the assessed value of Wyandotte County homes and businesses. And with residents struggling with their own budgets, fewer homeowners and businesses are paying the property taxes they owe. Several large businesses challenging the assigned property values on their buildings are withholding tax payments. That’s millions of tax dollars owed, but not being paid.
· As consumers pulled back spending, sales tax revenues coming into the Unified Government treasury receded as well. The Unified Government has collected $2-million less sales tax dollars in 2009 than the year before.
1. Property tax appraisals are exaggerated by 40% as a plan to bring in more revenue as stated above and out of the crooked kindness of the UG heart they dropped them 7%?
2. Greed brings opposition to results and pigs get fed while hogs get butchered and the WYCO Taxpayers and businesses are sick of the UG hogs.
3. Sales taxes are way down but the UG and Crime Boss Rick Worner insist to build more and more at Village West and ignores all others as business, residents and basic services for the remainder of the City.

The closure of The Woodlands Racetrack facility and the delay in construction of a destination casino resort are also costly, combining for an estimated $1-million loss in projected revenues. The woodlands would have been open if the State and UG had not been so greedy.
1. As stated right here the City is Broke but yet they insist in giving away Million and Billions to any and everybody who wants it as Casino’s the Wizards, Schlitterbahn, Cerner Corp, Wal-Mart and etc.
2. If a business wants to take advantage of WYCO and it’s great employees and that business will make its own profit – why do we foot the bill for them to open? If you make the profits from your business then pay for your own business as all other businesses, outside of Village West, have done Citywide.
3. The cost of union contracts, non-union employee market rate pay raises, skyrocketing fuel costs, recent harsh winters and the sharply rising public safety costs

· The cost of union contracts, non-union employee market rate pay raises, skyrocketing fuel costs, recent harsh winters and the sharply rising public safety costs.
1. This all refers to Basic Services, what annexation of small Cities into the UG was promised for their tax dollars.
2. Fuel Cost problems then take away the free cars and fuel to all the Executives and cut $ Millions a year.
3. Harsh Winters – What harsh winters? Maybe harsh winters in wonderland where Hays lives 95%

· The 2009 Unified Government Budget anticipated lower revenues. A hiring freeze was implemented, a halt to capital projects and most equipment purchases was imposed, merit pay increases for non-union employees were cancelled and an incentive program to encourage eligible employees to retire is in place.
1. A Halt to capital Projects and equipment purchases? – Wal-Mart, Schlitterbahn, Cerner, Gaming, Wizards and turning City parks into Private enterprises. Some how I missed the HALT did you?

· Early in 2009, all Unified Government Department Directors and Senior Managers were directed to prepare two proposals outlining 5% and 10% cost reductions for the remainder of 2009 and for the 2010 budget proposal. This total team approach tapped the expertise of each department and its leaders to tell us the best way to reduce expenses while minimizing as much as possible negative effects on services provided. It is a better strategy than a top-down mandated menu of cuts.
1. Negative effects on Services Provided? HA! We have no Basic Services left, 20% of residents still are without sewers, streets are like mine fields and people are loosing their children in sidewalk holes.
2. Police and firemen are frozen in time while top management still gets raises.
3. Top down strategy should be to cut the top down by 50% along with their salaries.

· The 2010 Proposed Unified Government Budget requires everyone to sacrifice. Elected leaders, employees and the citizens we serve will be affected. Building this budget forced us to seriously review the Unified Government’s mission and scrutinize essential and non-essential services. There will be much discussion about which services are essential and which are not. The Unified Government provides many services which are important, operates many programs which are nice to have and are appreciated by citizens. But in this brutal economic environment, many of them must be suspended or eliminated.
1. Everyone to Sacrifice means everyone in the City except the people who pay for the City to be a City the Taxpayer. Without the Taxpayer you have no City, BPU, Schools or College.
2. Service cuts must be the salaries of the top hundred, all travel, free cars and fuel, expenses, no-bid contracts, giveaways and projects that make Rick Worner a Billionaire.
3. There are no non-essential services only services that have been promised through annexation that must be kept. If we have no benefits for annexation then we want de-annexation and away from the UG Corruption.

· Cutting Expenses: Employees
· Employees funded through general tax dollars will be furloughed for 17 days
· Cutting Expenses: Public Safety and the Jail
· Mowing and weed cutting on vacant lots and easements, as well as in County Parks will be not be done as often.
· Snow and ice removal from city streets will not be as thorough and street cleaning will be done less frequently under the 2010 proposed budget.
· Public Transit Services are struggling across the nation and KC metro. Unified Government Transit will be forced to reduce the level of service by shaving operation hours and eliminating routes.
· Parks and recreation programs will be cutback.
· The Wyandotte County Museum will be closed. While the museum does an excellent job of chronicling and displaying the history of our community, it is a non-essential service which can not be afforded next year.
· All capital expenditures, from equipment to street projects, will be suspended in 2010. The only exception will be those purchases or projects paid for with grant fund or federal stimulus dollars.
· Other reductions include curtailment of travel to conferences and meetings by UG officials; purchase cards will be issued to fewer employees allowing tighter controls on expenditures; and membership dues and contributions to organizations, associations and community agencies will be scrutinized and reduced.
· A number of new initiatives, launched in just the past few years, are also affected.
· The popular County Initiative for Infrastructure Program (CiFi), which shares revenues for public works projects between Bonner Springs, Edwardsville and KCK, is suspended.
· The 3-1-1 Call Center launched just two years ago will be scaled back. While innovative and a major improvement in customer service, the 3-1-1 Call Center is not an essential service.
· The front door of the Wyandotte County Courthouse will again be locked, requiring citizens to use the entryways located between the Courthouse and Jail buildings. The Courthouse front door was re-opened as a convenience, but requires a substantial cost for additional security.
· The popular Senior Citizen Utility Tax Rebate Program
1. All these cuts are for Basic services that effect Citizens and Non-Union employees.
2. Not one cut that effect the Mayor or Hays and or top dogs in the City of Nepotism and Cronyism?

Diversifying Revenues: Inter-fund Transfers
· The 2010 Budget proposes using one time “loans” to the general fund from two reasonably stable UG trust funds. This is in a way like shifting money from a savings account to a checking account to help pay some bills. But this is a one-time approach and the money must be repaid to the funds in the future. The two funds are the Environmental Trust Fund, which is supported by the residential solid waste management program, and the Employee Health Insurance Fund. The total amount of these one-time inter-fund transfers is $6.5-million for 2009 and 2010.
1. Can you believe they want to rob/steal from the Citizens Environmental Trust Fund and the Employee Health Insurance Fund.
2. Anyone who believes this Corrupt City will pay those funds back – do a backflip.

Diversifying Revenues: Fees
· KCK residents pay one of the lowest trash collection and curbside recycling fees in the Midwest. Under the 2010 Proposed Budget, the $9.75 monthly charge will be increased $2 in January to $11.75 a month. The higher fee will cover increases in the cost of trash service being imposed by the Deffenbaugh company. A second increase is contemplated in July of 2010 with those additional dollars assisting with the budget shortfall. See The Real Story of Our City Recycling?
1. Never look within to solve your greed, steal more from the Citizens. A Dennis Hays, Joe Reardon best seller.

· Economic Crisis Emergency PILOT (ECEP). The Board of Public Utilities is a municipal electric and water utility owned by the Unified Government. The BPU is a tremendous asset to the community. It is time to make it even more so. In order to minimize the already drastic cuts to services, programs and workforce being proposed and to avoid imposing the kind of massive property tax increase which would be needed to fill the budget hole, the 2010 Budget proposes steps to put the Unified Government owned BPU to work even harder for all citizens.
1. The BPU is owned by the people it serves the Ratepayers. The BPU owes the City a payment in lieu of taxes as any businesses within a City is due and that is it.
2. We the people give the City free utilities and don’t have to, and in return the UG wants to steal more and more to satisfy the greed of their salaries and expenses.
3. The City needs to get a grip on the Giveaways it has donated, with those giveaways back that were taken from taxpayers we could have built 4 new BPU’s
4. UG Get you hands out of our BPU or get ready to be spanked.

As a Conclusion the City/UG has dreamed it’s way in bankruptcy while it has made Rick Worner, Gary Grable, Hal Walker, Bill Miller, Dennis Hays, Joe Reardon, Carol Marinovich, John & Mary Mendez, Pat & John Pettey, Mark Mitchell, Tom Cooley and the Top Dogs and Good Old Boys Rich. This City is now $2.8 Billion in debt and has a yearly interest payment of over $190 Million on the debt they say they don’t have.

The City Budget has gone from $90 Million to $256 Million in 5 years and it is growing as reported in this “Please Believe Me” letter hays is trying to feed you

Get smart vote all these ASSES out of office and save your own jobs and family. This City is 3 French-Fries short of a Happy-Meal!

TJ Reardon
10-18-09
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