Faux Cost Reductions

The City Council was warned earlier this year that (long overdue) changes at CalPERS to tackle pension debts would spell fiscal disaster for Fullerton.  This problem is very much real and will be quite painful in the years to come.

What isn’t real was the feigned appearance of City Hall trying to cut expenses.  Truth be told, nobody at the City seems to care.

Remember the Hillcrest Park ‘Pine Forest Stairs’ ceremony, which lasted maybe 30 minutes, and was attended by forty or fifty people?

The balloons you see above cost the taxpayers $776.51.  Were they necessary?  Of course not.

Meanwhile, at other locations across town, the never-ending waste from Parks and Recreation continues unabated.  $350 for two hours of face painting and a clown to blow up balloons.

Another $450 down the drain for a game of Human Foosball.

These aren’t unusual expenditures — this stuff goes on all the time.

So this is the cue for [new City Manager] Ken Domer to step up and make this nonsense go away.  It’s also a cue for the City Council to hold him accountable in that regard.

9 Replies to “Faux Cost Reductions”

  1. https://image.ibb.co/mxR8ab/stairway.jpg I went to to top of these stairs…. it doesn’t look anything like this architect rendering. They squeek also. This artist rendition of the staris appears to have composite material for the floor and solid steel rails. I can tell from the westside upgrade of the park that they are keeping the old sickly looking trees. Hopefully they can plant some new foliage like the picture of the stairway shows.

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