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If the City of Hollister could sell the parking garage for the
bargain price of $5.7M, it could return this money to the General
Fund and the city would have $15M again.
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“If the City of Hollister could sell the parking garage for the bargain price of $5.7M, it could return this money to the General Fund and the city would have $15M again.”
“I think that Dale Shaddox is doing a great job as city manager. I know he is working long hours to fix a lot of things that are really screwed up in Hollister. It’s nice to have someone smart running the city for a change.”
“A broad and irresponsible statement with no facts to back them up is an easy thing to do as an armchair political analyst. The truth about the matter of who is to blame for the financial matters of the state cannot all be one person’s fault. It is fundamentally impossible!
Prior to the re-election campaign and pre-Enron robbery of the California’s budget surplus, our state was in good shape and our governor’s approval ratings showed that everyone was happy with the job being done by Mr. Davis. No one person has all the answers and our state’s economic affairs is not a script that someone wrote to be read when the director says ‘action,’ as part of a dialog for a major motion picture release.
A basic and obvious problem is that the world economy is affected by our state’s economic slow down (Silicon Valley) which was inevitable. The Enron robbery of California’s budget surplus for the so called ‘Energy Shortage’ incident and the 9-11 tragedy, along with the financial impact that would be caused for making our state secure was more than our states could cope with, and both incidents aren’t of Mr. Davis’ doing. They both were unforeseeable occurrences with unpredictable consequences.
The only mistake that I saw was the haste in making long-term power purchase contracts in an effort to stop the rocketing price of power on the open market system that sells surplus power from other states. I do not know all the facts that made the idea of long-term contacts the best solution, but I would bet money that the governor was under a lot of pressure from many different angles to resolve the matter quickly since people where actually sitting in the dark from the mandated rolling blackouts. In the end, there was no power shortage, just a con game pulled off by the wealthy.
Mr. Davis is in a tough situation with no real clear solutions to resolve our state’s budget, economic and unemployment situations that, all rolled together, is the current condition of California. If those problems weren’t enough now, Mr. Davis now has to deal with the recall matter. This will not only distract focus from the original problems, it will also create a financial burden on top of everything else.
With all that being said and still being in the ‘EVERYTHING IS ONE MAN’S FAULT’ frame of mind, why isn’t it Mr. Bush’s fault for our nation’s dismal economic condition and the 6 percent national unemployment rate and near unrecoverable deficit levels that currently, all rolled together, make up the current condition of our country? I am still trying to understand rational thinking involved in the assessment of the two situations and how it’s the governor’s fault for California, but not the president’s fault for the country. Mr. Davis could use some of that blind and unconditional support from the people that voted him in like they did the president.
Problems like these are not easy to solve, and removing him to be replaced by (1) inexperienced actor or (2) unqualified representative will not help but only compound the issues.”
