![]() ![]() Money received from state and federal government streets go into the street 'bucket'. For example, the revenue from the city's bond to purchase rural land can only be spent on the purchase of rural land. Mon, : 12:34 DDA is not a 'bucket'.ġ) It is an unelected body over which the voters have no say over its membership nor over its spending.Ģ) None of its money is in a 'bucket.' It gets to spend its money as it want-including transferring some of it back to the City of A2 if it so desires.ģ) Buckets almost always are limited by the origins of the revenue. As I have noted in past posts over $100 million of funds could be drained by abolishing the many 'buckets' that are merely created by vote of city council.Īt any rate please put your big guns away for another day when we are on the opposite side of an issue! The DDA is not the only 'bucket' created by city council which could be abolished by city council. The purpose of the city of Ann Arbor's leadership in overcharging for utilities appears to be to have more money to divert to other uses including the General Fund. The buckets for sewer, water and waste management in Ann Arbor have run substantial surpluses over the years. You misread so many things in my post, it's just puzzling, and since I'm very busy right now, unfortunately I just don't have the time to give you a point by point rebuttal, so *please* carefully reread what I wrote, since I did not:ģ) Assert that U-M pays higher utility rates than any other customer andĤ) *Newly elected* Independent Jane Lumm thanked me tonight during a break at City Council for my many posts on the need to 'Drain The Buckets!'īuckets, or 'separate fund accounts' are partially drained in Ann Arbor each month for administrative and IT overhead & etc. My Dear Ghost: I've been called a lot of BAD names before, but this is the very first time I've EVER been accused of being either.Ģ) President of 'Bank of Ann Arbor'!ĭid you miss the fact that I'm President of 'University Bank' or my many posts knocking the DDA's $50 million Big Dig? ![]()
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