Annapolis Capital Punishment

Mayor Moyer delivered her annual state of the city speech, as this is now budget season. CP gives the Mayor high marks for explaining the difficult situation our city is always faced with in raising revenue for all the things people want but for which they don’t like to pay. It’s the perpetual challenge of government but especially local governments, and Annapolis in particular. Being the state capital, with a heavy need for infrastructure and services, and it’s an old--very old city, and also being fortunate enough to have a vast amount of property from which it cannot collect taxes puts us in a tight spot. The budget grows….and grows. Property values grow, property taxes grow , and everything from roads, to sewers, to lights, to you name it goes up and up….and health care and fuel costs go up and people want more and more and more, but just somehow hate to pay and pay and pay.

The Mayor’s speech can be found at the city’s website. Read it. Enjoy it. Get involved with government. Hope and pray that we are in good hands. CP thinks it will turn out okay. It has for hundreds of years. Mayor Moyer and her administration have done a good a job overall, if not a better one, than have many previous ones. CP’s biggest complaint about city government is the seeming inefficiency, waste and poor management and lack of service or response at many departments, the blame for much of which can be placed at the Mayor’s desk. She picks ‘em. She can tell ‘em what to do or tell ‘em to take a hike. It is questionable how well she does with the former and there does not seem to be much of the latter.