Apples to Apples: The General Fund

Each month, the Board of Trustees receives a "Treasurer's Report" from our Treasurer, Cliff Brumbaugh. The report shows where we are financially, month by month.

As I've discussed until I'm blue in the face, and everyone else is reasonably sick of hearing, my opponent has been beating the "They're Spending Too Much" drum for well over three years now. If you go back several postings, you'd find the actual facts that show that my opponent spent more, percentage wise, over his last four years in office, than we have in the past three.

Well, it's time for more "facts and figures." We'll compare the month of February 2005 (the last year my opponent was in office) to February 2009 (our latest Treasurer's Report). The general fund, by the way, is the "fund" that we pay for nearly everything that we do in the Village out of. So, the total for the general fund in February 2005 was:

$2,014,194.16

And now, the total for the general fund in February 2009 is:

$2,204,838.94

Using my Radio Shack calculator, that means that we are:

$190,644.78 AHEAD of where we were 4 Years Ago.

So, even after all of that "horrific" spending we've done over the past four years, we're ahead of where we were four years ago. Can that be right? Yes, it is. When my opponent, and his newspaper, or his circulars, and the Peoples Party hierarchy, do all that they can to try to convince you otherwise, let them know that you already have the facts. And, those facts show that we've accomplished a lot, and in a fiscally sound way, as well.

Now, in two other areas, the "Motor Fuel Account" and the "Waterworks Account" we are down from where we were four years ago. Why? Because some major projects were completed over the last four years, and those pay-outs came from those accounts. The projects were the resurfacing of Forest Park Drive, the painting of the Observation Tower, and the resurfacing of Monroe Avenue. I'll have that information for you in the next couple of days.