{"id":549,"date":"2009-08-05T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T14:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-08-05T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T14:23:15","slug":"mayor-paves-green-paving-shingling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/mayor-paves-green-paving-shingling\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Pave’s Green Paving, Shingling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Budget season is upon us.<\/p>\n

The Pavin’ Mayor has it all worked out that paving & shingling over 2500 acres is somehow ‘green’. <\/a><\/p>\n

And he’s got the money to do it.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it works. In the good times boost paving budgets through the stratosphere (in the adopted 2009 budget he boosted the paving budget by 60%, while every other budget but the police department went stagnant or was cut). This sets a new, outrageously elevated “adjusted base budget”<\/a> for the highwaymen to work from. So even if the highway department had to endure a 6% cut along with the rest of the departments, their budget would still be some 55% higher than it was in 2008. (This, in a deflationary financial environment and a population growth rate of under 1%….)<\/p>\n

In other words, a cut would not be a cut in the big scheme of things. It would be paving as usual for the highwaymen.<\/p>\n

The rest of the city departments would continue to experience real<\/em> cuts upon real cuts that get progressively deeper and are compounded each year. When looked at over the course of the 7 years that this mayor has been gratuitously paving, we’re starting to look at amputations in the non-paving departments.<\/p>\n

We should expect to see drastically cut bus service, more fare hikes, and a myriad of other cuts to city services and hikes in city fees after this budget is ground out.<\/p>\n

But definitely expect a lot more paving. For unimaginative politicians konkrete is the solution to everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor Pave’s paving budget on a steep trajectory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20,12,8,13,123],"tags":[95,305,1320,38,55,7,29,304,1321,306,96,99,28],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-suck","category-politics","category-public-transit","tag-auto-centric","tag-city-budget","tag-environment","tag-gluttony","tag-madison","tag-madison-wisconsin-politics","tag-mayor-pave","tag-paving","tag-places-that-suck","tag-service-cuts","tag-subsidy","tag-superhighway-stalinism","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}