More cuts for public services for Wayne County

[Danny]

This is horrible!

Wayne County Commisioner Robert Ficano had proposed to cut more public services from lawn cutting in freeways, highways and interstates to social services for the poor and seniors and low-income families. These cuts will save the city over 105 million dollars to balance the deficit. Wayne County needs new leadership and reformers to steer our ecomony, save what's left of our public services and lure regionalism.

Ficano and other leftovers have got to go!


WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

for Neda Soltani

[Kevgoblu]

Quite discouraging.
Everywhere you look, people are being asked to accomplish more with less. But within our local government, all we hear about is job cuts and service reductions. Not to say its not happening [[because I don't know), but I'd like to hear what type of productivity and efficiency improvements are being achieved by some of these departments. What type of outside the box thinking is going on to ensure that they continue to perform their core function. That being, providing service to the residents / taxpayers.

[DetroitDad]

Quite discouraging.
Everywhere you look, people are being asked to accomplish more with less. But within our local government, all we hear about is job cuts and service reductions. Not to say its not happening [[because I don't know), but I'd like to hear what type of productivity and efficiency improvements are being achieved by some of these departments. What type of outside the box thinking is going on to ensure that they continue to perform their core function. That being, providing service to the residents / taxpayers.

Woah, you're talking about the local governments here....

Our local governments don't really plan, they react and they react only when they have to, often that is too late to avoid hardship. Productivity and efficiency improvments take forward thinking as if the government was a business, that means time and money investments. Unfortunately, they already let time and money run out.

I also predict that the local governments now have too many problems to plan for future problems. They should have had a reserve that would allow them to be adding staff and resources to handle the added challenges. Now they are frantically trying to keep the status quo during a crisis [[twice as much work), and with less resources. Our local government [[and other local governments) is stuck in a cycle of reaction to decline.

Events alone are really in the driver's seat at this point.