BCDP Resolution Regarding Blount County Budget Process

Written by Marte Lawrence on October 9th, 2011

Whereas the citizens of Blount County like all of the citizens of the Unites States are still experiencing the negative effects of the economic collapse of 2007 and 2008, and
Whereas the Blount County Commission did not provide for detailed discussion and amendment of the budget at the June 2011 County Commission meeting so that the public can see where each commissioner stands on all of the department budgets, and
Whereas the Blount County Commission has the power to set the total budgets of the Blount County departments and did not contain spending to prevent a tax increase,
Therefore we the Blount County Democratic Party recommend that all future budget adoptions be proceeded by discussion and the opportunity for each commissioner to change the individual budget items.