From WDEL.com:
Some state House Republicans tout ideas they say will save Delaware taxpayers money and close the budget gap without tax hikes and salary cuts.
Lancashire Elementary School was the setting as 3 GOP Representatives unveiled their party’s plan to close a budget shortfall totalling more than 775 million dollars.
Chief among the GOP’s proposals is suspending the prevailing wage requirement for school construction and renovation projects–prevailing wage mandates that workers on state-funded construction projects be paid wages set by the state Labor Department based on an annual survey. Minority Leader Dick Cathcart says suspending the law has worked in other states.
Representative Greg Lavelle called for passage of House Bill 90, setting up a searchable online budget database, which he says would let state workers and members of the public see how their tax money’s spent, and come up with their own cost-cutting suggestions.
Deborah Hudson, who serves on the House Financial Committee, says the state has to be put on a “spending diet”, citing state ownership of golf courses and vacant buildings, sponsorship of beauty pageants and funding of needle exchange programs for drug addicts as examples of waste.
Other proposals include standardiaing school design and centralizing district purchasing–all told, the Republicans say their ideas would save over 125 million dollars a year.
Mr. C.R., just my .02 cents worth, but wasn’t the House under Republican control when they bought two golf courses and passed needle exchange? Correct me if i’m wrong?
also the same ones who realized that paddling minors was an absolutely horrible bill.
KLM: You are correct, sir. Those bills also passed the Democrat controlled Senate (and I believe in at least 2 of the three were sponsored by Democrats in the Senate) and were signed into law by a Democrat Governor.
To quote Meatloaf “2 out of 3 ain’t bad.”
What exactly is wrong with owning those golf courses? How are they contributing to the deficit?
If state ownership is such a problem, how about we slap an “open space forever” covenant on the deed and put it up for sale? I wouldn’t have any problem with that.
Or in Republican-speak does “sale” only mean “develop?”