{"id":2236,"date":"2011-08-08T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2011-08-07T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T19:45:05","slug":"next-this-city-is-going-to-be-selling-lemonade-and-holding-bake-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"Next, this city is going to be selling lemonade and holding bake sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Checkbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2237\" title=\"Checkbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Checkbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>You know your city government is in trouble when its people are so incompetent that they can&#8217;t even balance their checkbook and come up short by $420,000 one month. <a href=\"http:\/\/oregoncapitolnews.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/missing-money-from-city-coffers-leads-to-oakridge-plan-b-ask-citizens-for-a-loan\/\" target=\"_blank\">That&#8217;s the current situation in Oakridge, Ore.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a small city with an annual budget of only $3 million, a mistake of $420,000 is a pretty big deal. Because the city adopted its budget based on faulty information, it starting spending money based on the new budget &#8212; only to find itself going broke when the income wasn&#8217;t matching the outgo.<\/p>\n<p>The city is currently seeking a loan to cover the shortfall, but the city&#8217;s planning commissioner &#8212; an unpaid position &#8212; is out soliciting local citizens to lend the city the money if banks turn them down. The city says it&#8217;s just &#8220;Plan B.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least one local man wasn&#8217;t happy to be asked to lend money to the clowns at City Hall.\u00a0\u201cWhy would I loan them money if they can\u2019t even balance their checkbook each month?\u201d asked 87-year-old\u00a0Eddie Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know your city government is in trouble when its people are so incompetent that they can&#8217;t even balance their checkbook and come up short by $420,000 one month. That&#8217;s the current situation in Oakridge, Ore. For a small city with an annual budget of only $3 million, a mistake of $420,000 is a pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=2236\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-A4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}