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Provo council hires budget officer

Of course Billings doesn't like the hiring and it isn't because of the economy. It is because he knows all of the terrible management budget decisions he has made in twelve very long years as mayor. From the millions given to Action Target which benefits him personally to the iProvo debacle where he and Garlick's terrible management has cost the City millions and will cost it millions more in fifteen months after Broadweave has used all of the six million security and dumps iProvo back in Provo's lap, to the money they mayor has wasted at the airport to support his fetish for flying, to a myriad of other projects that have left this City totally unprepared for the economic downturn. How can the mayor have forced every department in the city to cut their budgets or keep them stagnant at best for the past twelve years but the budget continues to grow? He has taken those cuts and the additional revenues for projects that benefit him and buy him votes. We, the citizens of Provo, it is time to call him to an accounting and ask for a change for the better. Someone new!

Amen to Duh! Don't forget the horse trail head by the mouth of the canyon the City spent several hundred thousand dollars for the Mayor's wife as well. No one else uses it. That money would have been better spent in a park where thousands could benefit from it rather than the few, namely Billings' family. We have had enough bad management. It will take the next mayor a decade to dig us out of the infernal pit this mayor has dug for us. Fortunately he spent over a million dollars moving a few golf holes for a new development that is not coming. I wonder if the City could use that million dollars elsewhere? Well, at least the mayor can go golfing, after a good day of horse-back riding, after a good after flying his airplane. See, those tax dollars were well spent after all. Now the mayor can do everything HE ever dreamed of.

Come on citizens, how long will you let a man waste millions of dollars when he is supposedly "saving" for a rainy day and now that the rainy day has come there is no money. I say show me the money Lewis! You have cut department budgets 7 out of the last 11 years in the name of preparing while the going is good for when the going is bad and yet now that the going is bad the Mayor has no clothes. Egg on your face Lewis for misleading us citizens as well as your employees. Answer one question: Where is the money?