Why are excise tax collections up? Barbara Haller wants to know, but isn’t getting a good straight answer.
Our first overall impression: There is not NEARLY the doom and gloom we’ve heard from the City Manager in other budget presentations. We’ll see what April’s proposal for 2009 brings, but right now, this wasn’t nearly as dramatic as CMOB has been in the past Almost…hopeful, in a way, at least for this year’s numbers.
