Last Friday I spent part of the morning with Amby Jenkins the acting city treasurer for a tutorial on the 2010-2011 city budget. After just a few minutes I was reliving my grad school business accounting course. I am very thankful for the time I spent with Amby because it gives me a better understanding of the budget numbers as well as a list of questions to ask the department heads when the opportunity arises.
When the 2010-2011 budget was completed I heard comments about the police budget. Folks were analyzing the budget dividing the total monies by the number of officers, subtracting the number of square miles in Buckhannon and adding the square root of the sum of officer hat sizes. Without understanding the budget makeup, an uninformed person may not know the police budget number includes significant funds for the police safety complex construction.
The more time I spend at city hall, the more I learn. Thanks again to Amby for taking me to school.
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