Day, Allen spar over budget
By Arthur McLean Editor

Council member Charles Allen and Mayor Sheldon Day again locked horns over money when the city council considered its 2008 budget.

"My concerns is this last minute board approval," Allen said during the council work session. "We meet here an hour before the meeting and have 15 minutes to discuss this as a board."

"I've asked this last year and we still haven't done it, why don't we track our last five years of revenues compared to our spending, our balance gets lower and lower," Allen said.

"This is the way it was last year, and one year later, I'm seeing the same things, we do all these projects, and now we have this civic center that's not going to bring in any revenue," Allen said.

Day said he's tried to put together conservative budgets last year and this year. "Y'all got this budget over two weeks ago and we've asked the council for your input, and you've talked to me individually about your questions and concerns," Day said. "I'm not trying to ram this down your throat."

"I agree that we can sit down and work together more on the budget, but when I don't get a lot of input from the council, I consider it a validation of what we're doing. We've had some projects slip up on us that had to be done this year," Day said. "We've done more projects in the last three years than most towns do in 10. I'm actually ready for things to slow down a little

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