John Herbst
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9,624 appearances
59 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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And we need to look at opportunities for other people to participate in the tax dollars that are being awarded to the community.
And I and and that was why I was hugely supportive.
Of letting the Budget Advisory Board do this in the first place, and I'm very disappointed that the Commission rejected their recommendations.
Uh they put a lot of time and a lot of effort into it, and candidly the commission just threw it aside.
And I thought that was a disservice to the Budget Advisory Board, a disservice to the robust, rigorous process that they created, the scoring mechanisms that they developed, and to the community that basically saw their opportunities to
participate in government funding go away.
And we simply went back to doing what we always did, which is, you know, find our favorite children and give them money.
And and I really think we need to come up with a better process.
If it's not the budget advisory board, then we need to figure out what it is.
Because simply doing what we do gives us what we always get.
And I don't think that that best serves the community.
I don't think it's an uh I don't think it's an appropriate process.
It's certainly not one again
Yeah.
that has any performance measurements behind it that are meaningful and demonstrate that we are actively being effective stewards of the taxpayer dollar.
So I'd love to see us come up with a better approach.
And maybe that's something that the budget advisory board could at least dialogue around.
If it's not them, who, how and where are we going to do this so that we can do it better?
Thank you.
Could I be a little more clear about that?
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