Teresa Saldivar Sounds Off on City Management of Taxpayer Dollars!

Teresa Saldivar

"Considering what I heard at this past weeks meetings regarding the threshold and how quickly city staff was able to spend the three million dollar windfall from the AEP lawsuit and now this musical chairs of offices, it indicates the spending threshold of 35k is to much leeway for our city administration to manage wisely our city's money. The threshold needs to be dropped to fifteen hundred dollars. Any expenditure fifteen hundred or more, must go before the commission and the public for approval. What appears to be happening is a spend thrift of unwise decisions without any real or legitimate planning or strategy. 24k to move a house to one location and then another 14k to relocate it again indicates serious issues within our city administration. This town is broke like a worn out joke and they just keep wasting money while telling us a meter increase is required because there is no money. Well, if they would stop spending it like water flowing in the river, we would have money to do what is really necessary for our community's improvement."

Threshold for Capital expenditures start at $1600.00 + and require council and publics approval. There is no reason for any department to have the authority to spend up to 35k before the commissions and publics approval. That is a huge red flag.