State wants your help on saving $10M (Augusta: furlow, schools)

[DavidoftheNorth]

[SIZE=3]State wants your help on saving $10M[/SIZE]
The Maine government needs to save $10.1 million to balance the new $6.3 billion two-year budget, and it’s asking for public input on how to do it.
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee has established an online suggestion box for the public to share ideas on how “to generate on-going structural savings,” including identifying “sources of administrative excess, redundancy or inefficiencies in state government.”
Access the “Public Input to Streamline State Government” suggestion box and share your ideas with state lawmakers here: AFA Committee Public Input to Streamline State Government (http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5511787c62017f7513&ls=fe281777746d017d701776 &m=fef217777c6703&l=ff2817767c61&s=fe5d12727661047 e7c12&jb=ffcf14&t - broken link)=



source: Mainebiz Daily=

[399083453]

Dont fix any bridges this year. Proclaim the bridges "safe"

Oh.....wait..... sorry we already did that.

[mollysmiles]

I vote we take money from the rural Maine schools and give it to the southern Maine schools with the higher tax base, maybe they won't need as much, and make those rural kids ride 60 miles one way to get to school--AND the money we save by cutting admin we use to bus the kids!

oh, wait.....




darn, I'm sorry....that was snippy....TRUE, but snippy

[BacktoNE]

How about eliminating all the dead weight on the payroll in Augusta? I can't even count the number of times I had to call any number of the State offices only to get passed around and around. Wouldn't want anyone to actually have to do their jobs. I would think a safe estimate would be that at least 15% of the clerical and middle management type positions could easily be eliminated.

I don't have any specific reason for coming up with that number other than personal experience over the course of 20 years.

[mollysmiles]

oh...that's good BacktoNE--brings to mind the highway crews!! 4 guys standing around with a shovel watching a 5th one actually use one...


(I must be having a bad day....I'm complaining!)

[Let's tell the truth]

Tried to go to your link but couldn't connect. But these are my suggestion's.Number One why don't the people who think they control our state(Only the good ones please) get out there and talk to the average people instead of taking to the people who run these small towns. Alot of these people who run these towns are the problem.They do not want change . They control there towns to keep them poor so they can get extra gov. help! But 0ne thing they do like to do is arrest people and rake in those fines.You know what the Military can be random drug tested I think the state of Maine needs to be random drug testing there police force! Young people follow by example!And please have them drug tested by a outside person. Another thing how about our jails? Are they full enough for us yet!And they want more jails! How about repacing probation and going back to parole? How about instead of hiring more people to work for the state why aren't we utilizing our people in jails to help clean up our state. They may be in jail but most of them had some kind of skills on the outside.

[contented]

molly.......u know that old joke about the state road crew that gets to some road job they're working on out in the boonies and the old timer sez to the foreman "oh oh boss, we forgot to get the shovels", and the foreman sez "ahh, don't worry about it, just lean on each other". hehehehe

[bigchuckie]

Can the laptop program

[mainebrokerman]

a few years back, state workers had "furlow" days,,,days without pay to balance the budget ,,only "essential" state employees worked those days (about 20% were essential) ,,
if 80% were non-essential, then,,,why are we paying them??

[mollysmiles]

Originally Posted by contented

molly.......u know that old joke about the state road crew that gets to some road job they're working on out in the boonies and the old timer sez to the foreman "oh oh boss, we forgot to get the shovels", and the foreman sez "ahh, don't worry about it, just lean on each other". hehehehe

lol...I knew you guys would know exactly what I was talking about!