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14Apr/11Off

My Assessment of Kevin Kamenetz’s 1st Baltimore County Budget

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamanetz (D) has proposed his first budget since taking office in December. Here's the bottom line from him, "Our expenses exceed our revenues." To account for that, he's proposing to spend $60 million of the County's rainy day fund / surplus and has gotten approval to raise a number of county business fees. He's keeping property taxes as is for now.

My bottom line on this...if the "...expenses exceed our revenues..." then the county needs to cut their expenses. It may sound naieve, it may sound too simple - but it's a fact. If we can't afford to spend what we traditionally spend, we have to spend less. I know, 200 teaching positions had to be cut this year. It's a shame, but we clearly need to cut even further into the county's budget. Instead of growing by less than 1%, which is admirable compared to previous budgets, why not just...not grow the budget at all. Again, this may sound very simplistic - but it's the truth. I don't pretend to know what or where to cut, but targeted spending cuts need to happen or eventually we will have no surplus to balance our budget with.

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