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City of Mesa has approved a $1.2 billion budget, which has been slashed about $120 million to make up for current revenue forecasts. The budget contains several deep cuts and comes along with a raise to utility rates in garbage, water and trash.
Mayor Scott Smith has tried to diplomatically separate himself from this budget, placing the large majority of it at the feet of the previous council. While this factually true, it probably wasn't the best time for him to make any sort of statement to that effect. He promised that he was going to audit the city from top to bottom. Obviously, he wouldn't have a chance to do that before the new budget has passed, but it would have been better for him to point to the positives that he is planning before distancing himself from the current work product.
It would be best for all of the new council to let this pass and move on to making their own impact on the city, bringing in new revenues and making sure that they don't have to pass another bleak budget like this again.
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The article mentions that Smith would like to "make his own imprint", but failed to mention that he stated he feels there are ways to trim the size of the budget and have the city be more efficient.
The fact is, this budget was going to be passed no matter what. The current council had nothing to do with it and didn't have time to adjust anything that was in there. Watching the council meeting last night, it was very clear that this council would be approaching the budget in a different manner.
This council has a lot of corrections and blunders to fix. I hope they can lead this city in a better direction. The biggest problem in this city was IMO Hawker and Rawls.
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