Jan 26, 2008 Toledo Blade story :
The city of Toledo will not contribute financially to Lucas County's publicly funded economic development agency, leaving it with an estimated $125,000 hole in its $680,000 budget.
Here comes the bullcrap excuse :
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said yesterday the city's projected $10 million budget deficit this year will prohibit it from pumping funds into the Lucas County Improvement Corp. "We just don't have the financial wherewithal to contribute," said Mr. Finkbeiner, who records show did not personally attend an LCIC meeting in 2007.
So now Czarty is concerned with spending, eh?
But all is not lost for the LCIC :
Instead, Toledo will contribute with manpower. The mayor, who made a rare appearance at yesterday's LCIC board meeting, told The Blade he will attend more such meetings himself and will make the city's economic development staff available for projects.
Hah! Instead of paying $125,000 to an org allegedly interested in county-wide economic development issues, Czarty will attend their meetings. That's a fair trade.
So if Toledo doesn't pay, why should the other communities in Lucas County pay money to the Toledo Improvement Corporation?
How about this isolationist line from Czarty :
"We can't be solving everything going on around us. We've got to take care of the city's basic needs."
Fine. Then why can't the other communities in Lucas County think about themselves that way? It's always Toledo who pushes for unigov, but cretins like Czarty don't care about the county nor the region. Their concern is how the rest of the county and region can serve Toledo.
