Down The Sewer Pipe – Politically Speaking

Most of the people in your community would love to know “where the money goes”.  This is the function of budgets but it is sometimes hard to find out just what is being bought.

On this blog I have placed links to various governments and quasi governments and with the exception of the Town Of Friday Harbor it is impossible to tell what the money is actually being spent on.

Some counties, like Multnomah or San Juan, do not include the narrative with the budget.  Others have the narrative but under a separate cover so making a connection to income and expenses is impossible.  Portland City Schools is a real good case in point as it takers a request based on a federal law to get both the budget and the narrative.

It is incumbent for elected persons to construct the government budget, Federal, State, County, and city in such a way as to prove where the money goes.  Other types of budgets are liked by some in civil service because it allows money to be shifted Willie Nellie from department to department without notice.

Come to think of it, some elected people resist the kind of budget where the narrative goes with the numbers fro the same reason.  This is why they are Down the Sewer Pipe – Politically speaking.

Sherman