http://savannahchannel.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=savannah_news&wr_id=620

The state’s contribution to get this started was over $3 million and the annual operating costs were expected to about $1.3 million. We have a bunch of poor poverty people in Savannah if you were not already aware.

According to my estimate of the program instead of the new costs to the tax payers of less than $1million per year after six months it is on a path to cost about $1.2 million. To make the original estimated budget by the city to work citizens will have to increase their recycling by 650%. Yes, they have to buy more crap and make sure their crap goes into the state funded recycling containers.

Playing with trash is fun.

Then again there are many things (like editorial processes) which interest me and simply bore others.

Doesn’t matter. That was paid out of last year’s funds.

Although sarcastic Dash, many of us (local elected officials) feel that our representatives DON’T listen to us. They are weakening gov’t at the local level and some have even spoke out against us from the well, but we are at their mercy as long as they keep getting re-elected.

* States are use to tax abatements, free land, roads, utilities not paying cash up front for jobs. A new paradigm!……………just like a bribe.
Pretty sucky when at best employees pay 15% in combined taxes, so it would take 7 -10years to recover the $68, 000 per.

http://www.open.georgia.gov/

Thank me later.

Alternatively, one could, with a phone call or two, obtain an actual copy of the budget too.

Hire an independent firm to evaluate all AGENCY HEADS for competence vs salary paid.

o make things easy start with those paid over $100,000. The 500 highest paid.

Take a look at how little some of those people make, same in many other agency where Commisioners are elected vs appointed by Governor.

Why does the Govenor’s Office need 656 employees. ~~ 35 of which make > $100,000 per year plus expenses………….to help HIM FISH!

In Teachers Retirement System has 220 emplyees….. Why does
BOEDY,NANCIE H -CO-CHIEF INVESTMENT make $427,480.08
CARY,CHARLES W -CHIEF INVESTMENT OFF $427,480.08
HORKAN,THOMAS A -DIRECTOR OF EQUITIES $335,733.34

It is very interesting to look at MINOR STATE salaries in obscure places.
There are many almost secret pools of excess compensation and duplication.

I don’t know why the guilty ones (and you know who you are) never saw that one coming.

Imagine the conservatives and libertarians who would spend many hours pouring through the list, line by line, sending emails to get more info, and coming up with real budget cuts.

I don’t see Democrats or Rockefeller Republican’ts in Georgia government ever coming within 5,000 miles of doing that.

You know the data exists, and could be compiled annually with the budget. So what if it is a 50,000 row spreadsheet (or more)? Heck, I’ll take few thousand rows for review. If they can make the records for all 16,000+ registered sex offenders online for download as a spreadsheet, surely they can do so with the budget. Frankly, I and everyone I know are in far more danger from the state budget than from sex offenders.

Techno, Can’t do it. We have a banishment prohibition in the state constitution. I’m pretty sure some activist judge will say it applies to voluntary release and banishment too.

Legalize. Drops prison population pretty signficantly AND allows law enforcement to concentrate on actual crimes.

By the way California has 136 state workers per 10,0000
Georgia has 171 per 10,0000.
Alabama, SC, and NC all have more than 225 State employees per 10,000
http://sourcebook.governing.com/subtopicresults.jsp?yr=34&ind=681&cha=&sort=a&mrtype=&ctype=3&print=1

Some Departments have so many employees with so much sick, and vacation time booked that if you fired them you would still have to pay their entire years worth of salary. So much for cutting Senior workers to save money.

I would early release half our inmates on the condition that they immediately leave the State with a free plane ticket to California and cannot return for 4 years. Because California is planning the same budget cutting measure!