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New Mayor Says Fiscal Indiscipline Reigned Under Last Council
posted (April 26, 2018)

And while that happened on March 8th., the new Mayor says that before March 7th, his predecessor was running a council with no fiscal discipline:…

Bernard Wagner - Mayor, Belize City
"Everybody was running a free for all, everyone - I'll give you some examples. Look at the categories. Overtime: budgeted 136,000 - spent 332,000, is there prudence there? Summer employment; this is when we employ youths - 20,000 budgeted - spent 44,000. Special portfolio allocation: budgeted 180,000 - spent 406,000. Donation: budgeted 72,000 - spent 163,000. This big one here, celebration and festivities, a lot of parties were going on here deputy. 96,000 - spent 455,000. Entertainment, I wonder if the 6,000 is in this - 26,000, spent 110,000. Fuel: budgeted half a million dollars - spent 641,000. How can accounts spend close to a million dollars in fuel? I leave that to the good press. Scanning of period reviled abuse by previous council and particular the city administrator in respect to fuel. The city administrator rack up almost 30,000 annually in fuel; interesting to note is the fact that the previous council spent over 1.3 million in celebrations and festivities from the period 2014 through 2017."

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