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Yes you can be proud Tea Partiers. You did not rape the American Taxpayers this way.
Mid-size city Austin, Texas is expecting to spend $1,000,000 of taxpayer money on the Occupy Austin movement, effectively eating away at claimed reductions in the citys police overtime budget only two months into their fiscal year.
To put the $1 million figure in perspective, you need look no further than the city of Austins own budget for 2011-2012 thats what the city was hoping to save on police overtime this year. Austins fiscal year starts on October 1st. The city budget made the following assumption
The Police Department is generating savings by delaying the start of the next cadet academy by six months and reducing its overtime budget by $1.0 million, from $9.3 million to $8.3 million, to be more in-line with actual overtime costs experienced over the last few years. In the past three fiscal years, actual overtime expenditures have averaged $7.5 million.
What are Austinites getting for their money? In a pattern thats been followed all over the country, the Occupy Camp in Ausitn has become largely a homeless camp.
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» OccupyAustin Expected to Cost Taxpayers Over $1,000,000 - Big Government
Mid-size city Austin, Texas is expecting to spend $1,000,000 of taxpayer money on the Occupy Austin movement, effectively eating away at claimed reductions in the citys police overtime budget only two months into their fiscal year.
To put the $1 million figure in perspective, you need look no further than the city of Austins own budget for 2011-2012 thats what the city was hoping to save on police overtime this year. Austins fiscal year starts on October 1st. The city budget made the following assumption
The Police Department is generating savings by delaying the start of the next cadet academy by six months and reducing its overtime budget by $1.0 million, from $9.3 million to $8.3 million, to be more in-line with actual overtime costs experienced over the last few years. In the past three fiscal years, actual overtime expenditures have averaged $7.5 million.
What are Austinites getting for their money? In a pattern thats been followed all over the country, the Occupy Camp in Ausitn has become largely a homeless camp.
Read More:
» OccupyAustin Expected to Cost Taxpayers Over $1,000,000 - Big Government