Today is June 18th and the new fiscal year starts in less than 2 weeks.
No one except the mayor knows what is going to be done.
I watch the City of Everett’s website, waiting for – at the very least – a draft of the FY 2021 budget.
Nothing, as we have come to expect.
As Shakespeare said: Nothing can be made from nothing.
Not a single thing about the upcoming budget has been posted.
This state of affairs is not the way to run the city when the financial situation has become so potentially perilous.
The embattled DeMaria administration spends far too much trying to have the taxpayer pick up the tab for his legal bills and not enough time working to improve the quality of life of the good people of Everett.
At the June 8th City Council meeting the mayor talked about his discretionary account for legal services, but I could find no mention of that account in the City’s FY2020 budget.
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