VetTheGov.com Uncovers a Budget Crisis in Mesa County Colorado

The author of this new website, who I have great respect for his effectiveness in the political arena, has done his homework. If knowledge is indeed power then you’ll be one powerful person after reading VetTheGov.com.

Not only is the last post very will informed, it cuts straight to the bone of government’s inefficiencies. VetTheGov.com has been able to uncover millions of dollars in budgetary shortfalls and misspent tax money.

Beginning with the Landfill/Solid Waste department which for years was the talk of the town for actual good government business, has now become a negative on the balance sheet.  If you look at the this departments budget statement here you will notice that eventually all good government programs end up losing at some point.  The Solid Waste department will charge $3,875,000.00 for services with total expenditures for the program of $4,625,342.00 for a loss of ($750,342.00).  The positives for this catagory are required personnel which has stayed at Seven Full Time Equivalents (FTE’s) and some nice cash reserves.

The writer goes on to uncover,

Animal Services department is budgeted for $912,871.00 with charges for services of $501,100.00 for another loss of ($411,771.00).  The animal services manager annual salary based on monthly gross wages is $111,345.72.  The department also has an animal services director which is paid $72,894.96 annually.  The remaining portion divided up for 13 other positions and operating expenses.  Who would of thought the dog catching business paid so well?  Average response time 28.2 minutes for priority calls.

Here is where it gets interesting!  The Human Services and Health Fund department’s employ 306.58 FTE’s out of Mesa County’s 965.58 FTE’s total.  Combined budgets total $28,203,268.00 in which a large portion of their revenue comes from Federal government grants.  The Human Services department has 220.83 FTE’s with total appropriations of $21,927,203.00.  From this 21.9 million, $16,963,706.00 goes to salaries, benefits, and operating costs.  Only $4,908,165.00 makes it to actual clients.  See Human Services budget here.  There is no charge for services to clients.  The average Director gross salary is $87,515.00.

VetTheGov.com has several more targets in mind and is currently working on uncovering other stories. One current

Colorado bill SB 200 the Health Care Exchange Bill may just be subject to the VetTheGov’s next oversight. In a recent phone conversation I had with him, he said “this bill is nothing more that a open door for Obamacare.” I personally can’t wait to see what VetTheGov comes up with next.

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