Is it worth $7,500 to get the 2013 city budget done right? The governing body will decide tonight whether to hire consultant David Kochel, who fixed a raft of errors in the 2012 budget.
Kochel applied knowledge honed over 33 years in municipal government to untangle mistakes and omissions in last year's budget and brought it in with no tax increase. The city is currently in its second year with no full-time chief financial officer to guide the process and is already on a path to late passage. See Plaintalker's 2012 post here.
Kochel, who knows Plainfield well from many months as acting city administrator in 2011, could bring a degree of objectivity and professionalism that might otherwise be lacking in this highly politically-charged year. It is up to the seven council members tonight to decide.
The meeting is 8 p.m. in Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave.
--Bernice
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Thanks for keeping us up on the new, Bernice. I now have a class I teach on Monday nights, so for the next two and a half months I'll miss the action. Thanks again.
ReplyDeleteBob Bolmer