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Provo mayor defends his budget

Seems to me raising taxes in this economy is like biting off the hand that feeds the government.

Mayor, does anyone really care what 1,200 people from outside the state of Utah think about where the money is coming from to balance their budgets? The APPA excuse is the worst I have seen. Who cares what they think? They play NO role here in Utah regarding budgets. You are only worried about how YOU look. The fact is Mayor, if you weren't so worried about your "Legacy" rates would have been raised before now to keep up with the costs of doing business. Poor management has milked the Energy Department because of over twenty years of no rate increases. Power costs have sky-rocketed, any normal human knows all other costs have gone up, only this Mayor - for Legacy reasons - has not raised rates in the past twelve years and now has put Provo at serious risk because of it.

Billings expressed concern over how utility transfers looked to some of the 1,200 members of the American Public Power Association who were visiting for their annual convention.

UTILITY TRANSFERS LOOK BAD BECAUSE THEY ARE BAD! Utility money is not general fund balance the budget money.

The real point isn't about the budget transfers, although I agree with you, the point is lets worry about what is best for Provo and not what others think. Billings has wasted millions and 12 years worrying about what everyone thinks and accomplishing nothing for the City of Provo I was born and raised in.

When will this mayor defend 12 years of wasteful spending. Millions. No explanations are forthcoming because he has none. Waste, waste, waste!

It will take a decade to recover.

iProvo was a joke.