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St. George budget leaner, reflects slowing economy

St George and all cities in Utah need to start realizing that the cookie jar is broken and they must curtail spending. Pork projects are a thing of the past and priorities must be established to meet existing revenues and not projected revenues. Live within your means, just as the citizens have to do. Force contrators and bidders for realistic bids that don't make them millionaires on the backs of the taxpayers. Use taxes for public needs and government needs as it is supposed to be. Stop giving taxes funds to developers and stop using funds for promotional spending and encentives to business. Let business run itself with its own funding and not tax funding. The economy is going to take years to settle back down and the cities need to make adjustments to meet the needs and not be wasteful with what they have. Jobs could be abolished and departments and personnel numbers reduced. Cities are in the process of scaring citizens now in a effort to maintain its present course and waste of what was once a windfall tax base. Growth has limits and so does taxes and taxation.