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Notmy captain, here is a cut and paste for you. With 2 boats and a plane and more fishing gear than the seventh fleet, I cant be bothered.

I had big hopes for Joe. Unfortunately he has already made some major mistakes. He pushed to have the police and dpw contracts ratified before the 5 year plan was issued, before the RIPEC report was issued, and before the independent CFE/CPA report was issues. Postponing the ratification for a couple of weeks until the next council meeting was the right thing to do from a logical business perspective, but not from a vote gathering perspective.

Going on the Dan Yorke show and stating that he knew nothing about an outside contractor performing services for the council was ridiculous seeing that he signed the award and it was unanimously voted on by the council on 12/18/17.

Three freshman council members really screwed up by not acting in a fiscally responsible manner. For Mcallister to say that the 5 year plan is just another piece of paper was completely incompetent. Howe, Mcallister and Rix, have spent zero time looking at the fiscal stability of the city. In particular, when the council president looked at them and said "how are we going to pay for it, give me your plan", they stood silent and white as a ghost.

Now we have 2 freshman councilmen, on the finance committee, that voted against the finance chair. That committee is now broken.

Joe Gallucci who in the past I admired and respected made another grave error. When I approached him to ask him to hold the vote for 2 weeks he said to me that it is out of his hands and that he has been told what he needs to do. Manipulation for any reason is never beneficial in the fiscal process.

We will now see maximum tax increases for many years to come, every year. The rainy day fund will get depleted more and more every year. Copy and paste this last sentence, if I am wrong, stuff it up my whazoo next July 1.