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Fr - <br />SEP 1987 nn <br />BOOK � .�J PACE338 ?3S <br />Commission, and that is what the people are doing here tonight - <br />sending a mandate to their representatives here, minus one who is <br />in Europe which'is a nice place to be at budget time. Mr. <br />Moriarity pointed out that the Chairman of the Board of a <br />corporation doesn't bring in the stockholders to go over his <br />budget - he does the budget based on facts and hard evidence <br />based on research into every core of the operation and presents a <br />budget that will turn a profit. There is no profit here, but we <br />cannot continue to raise taxes, or we all will be ejected from <br />our homes - either that or possibly we should keep changing faces <br />on the Board until we get somebody who is going to hear us. <br />Commissioner Wheeler believed that most of the people he <br />knows who serve in public office do so because of a desire to <br />serve the public - not just to raise taxes. He pointed out that <br />the number of people here tonight is dwarfed by the people who <br />show up at budget hearings asking for things and justifying <br />their causes, and they are voters too. The crowd here tonight is <br />also dwarfed by those who come in during the year to ask for <br />county services. Commissioner Wheeler noted that the group here <br />tonight obviously is a better than average income group, and he <br />agreed that the way we are set up, the tax is not fair. He <br />doesn't like it any better than those here do, and he pays good <br />taxes, but after going through this budget line by line for two <br />solid weeks and cutting out $800,000, it is very difficult to sit <br />here and listen when people come in at the last minute and say <br />change it. Commissioner Wheeler felt possibly the government <br />should require that the proposed budgets be printed in the paper <br />and the TRIM notices sent out before the workshops and then more <br />people would attend and could look at the budget line by line and <br />hear both sides of the argument. <br />Mr. Moriarity felt that makes sense, and since we have so <br />many mandates, we should get Tallahassee to mandate one system <br />of setting up the various budgets. <br />