HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/10/2026 Item 7a, Schmidt (2)
Otta, Kaitlin
From:Richard Schmidt <slobuild@yahoo.com>
Sent:Tuesday, November
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Item 7a -- additional note
Dear Council,
Let me add a brief addition to my previous letter regarding 7a.
The crux of the SLOMA matter is the city has no fair and public-need-focused method of deciding how to use “extra” funds
at the end of its budget year. The present unfair system, which is biased against citizen desires for better public services,
has probably sprung up spontaneously without much planning or forethought.
You need a well-thought-through and fair system.
It is unfair that “big players” are advantaged to obtain funding while we the people don’t even know funds are available to
advance legitimate city services that may have been under funded.
“Separate and unequal” is an unjust, unfair approach to government considered despicable by decent people and is in
fact illegal.
Yet “separate and unequal” is a precise description of the difference in access to “extra” funds between big players and
commoners. The big fish are put in the know, assisted, even coddled while commoners are kept in the dark.
Please do this right, and develop a fair way to redistribute available funds, with sole use of those funds going to
strengthen city services. (I'd note the original purpose of the funds was for city services, so why the current assumption it's
OK to give them away to others rather than use for city services?)
Richard Schmidt
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