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Monday, August 6, 2012
HOW MUCH GOVERNMENT? Population, revenue sharing declines ...
Property values continue to decline. Overall, so is state revenue sharing.
Most local governments in Michigan rely on these two sources for a majority of their funding. Some depend heavily on the personal property tax, the repeal of which passed the state Senate in May.
All of this has left cities with the problem of what to do with declining revenues. Nearly all of them have turned to cutting and consolidating services.
Mike Vanderpool, city manager for Sterling Heights, said his city has lost more than $30 million in property tax revenues and expects to lose $2.5 million annually without the personal property tax. He attributes the city?s strong financial position to planning ahead as the financial meltdown hit in 2008 and a recession hit the country hard.
Through the city?s multiyear plan, it has been able to keep its AAA bond rating and avoid going into a deficit.
Though, that wasn?t without some changes.
?It?s a tough time to say the least for cities in Michigan and across the country,? Vanderpool said.
Reductions were made in staffing, wage and benefit concessions were negotiated with employees and services have been shared with neighboring communities whenever possible. In total, $27 million was cut out of the budget over the last five years.
?The effect on services has been minimal and that in large part is because we got a jump start on this back in 2007 and 2008,? Vanderpool said. ?We saw the storm clouds brewing and we made the multiyear financial plan.?
Police and firefighters were laid off for the first time in Sterling Heights? history. With 484 total employees after eliminating 106 positions since 2002, including 59 during this fiscal year, the city is at its lowest staffing level since 1977. Continued...
More public safety layoffs could be looming. A millage likely will be put to voters within the next year or two, Vanderpool said.
?Ultimately, the community is going to have to determine the services they desire and the level of funding they are willing to pay for,? he said.
Until then, he said, the city will hold public forums and invite residents to give their feedback and input about what is important to them.
Sterling Heights isn?t alone. Cities everywhere are feeling the pain as the economy struggles to recover.
Kalamazoo has lost almost $5 million in property tax revenue from 2009 to 2012 and a $4.9 million drop in statutory state-shared revenue during the same time.
The city of Detroit?s troubles are well documented, with its deficit at $197 million.
Mayor Dave Bing announced July 18 that a 10 percent pay cut and contract adjustments will go into effect that are expected to save the city $102 million annually. It was approved, 5-4, by the City Council.
Detroit?s deficit is due in part to decades of population loss and declining property values because of an abundance of vacant structures.
Michigan?s largest city has a population of 713,777, according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau?s count. That is down 25 percent from the previous census in 2000.
Grand Rapids, the state?s second-most populous city, has lost 5 percent of its residents over the 10 years and now is at 188,040. That change cost the city more than $195,000 in property tax revenue between the last fiscal year and the current one that began July 1, forcing cuts to some services, officials said. Continued...
Several cities and school districts are in receivership in the state. Benton Harbor, Detroit Public Schools, Ecorse, Flint, Highland Park Public Schools and Muskegon Heights Public Schools all have emergency managers. All but Ecorse still are running deficits.
Allen Park has a $4 million deficit for this fiscal year, which began July 1, and a $2 million deficit from past years. Two attempts to pass millages and a Headlee Amendment override that would have individually raised $2 million per year have all failed.
The city now is awaiting the findings of a state financial review team to find out what steps Gov. Rick Snyder will take.
Plante Moran representative Carl Johnson, who also serves as the city?s contract financial manager, explained to the City Council at a July 17 special meeting that the review team can have only three findings.
?One, the team decides there is no emergency and leaves,? he said. ?We know that?s not going to happen.
?Two, the state decides to go with a consent agreement; or, three, you get an emergency manager. So one way or another, this board will no longer have control.?
While property values have fallen about 50 percent in Allen Park over the last six years, the city also is in the hole because of $30 million in bonds it took out in 2009 to buy property for the failed Unity Studios project.
Consolidating services with nearby communities is one of the lynchpins of the governor?s Economic Vitality Incentive Program. As a part of EVIP, which is in its first year, local governments are expected to share services with others in order to get additional state-shared revenue.
Other cities in the state have been more fortunate. Mount Pleasant has had only one year in which property values have declined in the last six years, Finance Director Nancy Ridley said. With values staying flat, the loss of state-shared revenue is forcing the city to make adjustments to avoid a deficit.
?Everybody around us is struggling a bit, but not as much as the downstate area,? Ridley said. Continued...
Midland County also has had to downsize, eliminating 60 positions over the last three years, and has lost $5.7 million in tax revenue since 2007. Its general fund is $27 million.
Finance Director Tori Meyer said the city of Midland also has downsized and it and the county have not given employees raises in several years.
?One of my judges said it best,? Meyer said, ??We?re not doing more with less, we?re doing less with less.??
Contact Heritage Media Staff Writer Alan Burdziak at 1-734-246-0882 or aburdziak@heritage.com. Follow him on Facebook and @AlanBurdziak on Twitter.
Heritage Media Staff Writer David Herndon and intern Laura Clark contributed to this report.
Source: http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2012/08/05/news/doc50197bb279324100954185.txt
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Equestrian Island | All Notes
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For thousands of years humans have had a unique love affair with horses. These majestic animals have been loyal servants over the years, originally being used to work for us and make our tasks and lives easier.
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With the introduction of the combustion engine and other various new technologies to be born out of the industrial revolution, horse use has declined dramatically in terms of commercial use. Horses were no longer needed to pull ploughs or carriages as cars and tractors took their place.
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It?s not all doom and gloom though, where commercial use of horses has declined, the use of horses for pleasure purposes has increased dramatically, sparking a completely new branch of the UK economy since the introduction of motor vehicles.
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Horse riding is a popular pastime amongst the British population. It is estimated that there are currently over 2 million of us that will mount a horse at least once a month, and this figure is set to rise in the years to come as both the equine sector and UK population grows.
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The contribution to the UK economy by horse riders is substantial, perhaps as much as ?3bn it is thought. Many people, it is thought perhaps over 500,000 in fact, own or part own horses and there is a huge part of the retail sector dedicated to supplying specific horse accessories and care products like horse bedding and bits.
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You may be surprised to hear that horse racing is the second most popular spectator sport for the British public. The sport attracts more than 6 million people to racing grounds each year, many of these individuals will bet on race outcomes driving revenue for the gambling industry as well.
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The horse racing sector is a source of many jobs in the UK, and many other sectors rely on it to provide some aspects of their employment. Over 20,000 people are employed full-time in the horse racing industry and as many as 70,000 are employed within full-time positions through other sectors linked with horse racing. In addition to these jobs, the horse retail sector not only provides recreational horse riders with care products and accessories but also the horse racing industry. These retailers and other associated businesses provide another 28,000 full-time positions.
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Needless to say, the equine sector plays a significant role in the economy of the UK, especially in relation to the rural and leisure industries. Although primarily hosted within the countryside, figures show that riding schools and stables are attracting more and more people from urban centres. This trend is set to continue to rise over the coming years as people realise and the notion is dispelled that horse riding is not only a pastime and hobby for the affluent. In turn the equine industry?s contribution to the UK?s economy should grow in correlation.
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Source: http://all-notes.com/equestrian-island/
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
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Saturday, August 4, 2012
A Woman's Catholic Journey: Born Gay...Or Not
When doing a simple Google search I found thousands upon thousands of articles about why people are gay. ?Some of the articles were written by noted psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, physicists, Gay Rights leaders, Bloggers, Joe-Down-The-Street and housewives. In other words, lots of opinions have been weighed in on and many are purported as facts.
Some "experts" say gays and lesbians are simply "born that way." They claim it's a biological and therefore genetic reason for homosexuality. Other "experts" say it's a choice and should be allowed to flourish as merely that: a lifestyle choice.
Back in my days as a lesbian, I had numerous gay friends. I spent a great deal of time witnessing their lives and can only share my experiences.
Over 90% of my male gay friends had fathers who could not or would not show them affection. Male affection was something they craved and led them to homosexual relationships. Some of my friends admitted this about themselves and others didn't, but I was surprised at how many of them grew up with fathers who would not hug or kiss them.
Most of my female lesbian friends were either abused by their fathers or other adult male figures in their growing up years, or they were raised by single mother's who hated either their father or the other men who would come into their lives.
Others of my lesbian friends suffered bad relationships in their younger years and turned to women for the comfort and affection they needed. I remember one friend in particular who was very much in love with a young man whom she was engaged to. Then he told her he felt a calling to become a priest and left her very bitter and angry at men and God and the church. Up to that point (in her late twenties) she had never even considered getting romantically involved with women, but after that experience, she did.
I recently spoke with a gentleman who said as a boy he was very feminine and thought he was supposed to be a girl and started to force his attraction to men. Instead of his parents embracing it OR denying it, they took him to see their family doctor who sent them to an?endocrinologist?who discovered hormonal imbalances. With proper treatment and a doctor and family who cared, he became the man he was meant to be and is now happily married (to a woman) with several children and said he's so thankful his parents didn't just give up and let him grow up wanting to be a woman and live a miserable, disordered life.
A gay male friend of mine sent me a recent appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (Civil Action No. 3:10-cv-00257-JSW). First it lists all of the appeals filed and legislation. After that comes pages and pages of referenced articles about the positive aspects of homosexual lifestyles, including "statistics" on same-sex marriages, raising children by same-sex parents, etc. The article doesn't begin until page 11 and it starts with the?California Psychological Association and goes on to say that the American Psychiatric Association supports the legal recognition of same-sex marriage with all rights, benefits, and responsibilities conferred by civil marriage, and opposes restrictions to those same rights, benefits, and responsibilities.
After that it immediately refers to the National Association of Social Workers and goes on to say?NASW and its California Chapter (also an Amicus herein) support full social and legal acceptance of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.
And if these two organizations aren't good enough, they claim the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics is in support of their appeal.
So now we know a group of California psychologists and social workers, along with select members of the AMA and AAP, support same-sex marriage equality.
My friend prefaced the article with:
You might find this amicus brief for the same-sex marriage issue to be informative reading. Unfortunately, most religious zealots consider themselves to be more of an expert on the subject than people who?ve devoted many years of education and training and much research to studying it. Catholics also consider the priests of their church, who ignore the mountain of scientific evidence amassed in recent decades on the subject in favor of the writings of desert pastoralists from thousands of years ago, to be the ultimate authorities on the subject of all. But no matter how informed and ?correct? they thinks they are, the experts disagree. But they would never in a million years admit that.
The missing link here is what God says and not man. The Catholic Church will never change their stance on something that is a mortal sin in the eyes of God. You can package it any way you like, but it doesn't change the truth.
The truth is what set ME free. When I no longer looked at being a lesbian as the norm for me and something I needed to embrace, I was able to work with a counselor on why I turned to women for affection. It was very easy to figure out as I had a father who abused and abandoned me and a succession of men in my young life who caused me trauma and grief. I was afraid of men and therefore turned to females. But I was never happy and felt as if I was forcing that lifestyle on myself.
It took over 30 years to come to grips with the truth within me. I was not born gay. I am not gay. I chose to live a deviant lifestyle but it brought me grief and confusion.
The truth truly has set me free!
Source: http://ddhartjourney.blogspot.com/2012/08/born-gayor-not.html
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Continuity Disaster Recovery - Excellence In Business
No doubt you like to talk about the weather and also love to grumble whenever we get long periods involving bad weather conditions. This can use a damaging impact on you and your personnel also it can in addition impact your company. Exactly what do both you and your company perform in regards to the climate?
? Believe that weather is actually beyond your control. Sadly weather is completely beyond the management so accept this and stop attempting to manage the unrestrainable.
: Cease putting things off speaking about along with having to worry over it. The time have you and your workers put in discussing the next thunderstorm right now? Just what would you have done to profit the company with this occasion?
? Give attention to what you can manage. It?s very very easy to spending some time within your company focusing on stuff that are outside your manage however, you may achieve greater enterprise benefits should you retain focused on what you are able manage.
* Consider the way your organization will take good thing about the elements.How can your business benefit from the weather? Can you market distinct services and products? Maybe you could have a particular advertising?
- Look for the positive. Your own frame of mind rubs off in all those that you encounter. If you as well as your workers maintain positivity this really is infectious, these surrounding you will pick up on your current optimistic power and also buyers should do business with a person.
? Appreciate how different types of climate influence your small business. Take into account how a variety of weather influence your organization and program consequently. You will subsequently be in front of the competition and ready for no matter what temperature tosses to you.
: Construct strength for the weather into the enterprise. Your business may possibly currently always be determined by distinct temperature to succeed. Have a look at presenting other services that enable your small business to help no matter the climate.
* Make a contingency strategy. Assess the hazards in your business coming from severe weather, make a plan of the your business will perform in case confronted with various activities (at the.gary. inundating, electrical power cuts, delayed deliveries, the inability gain access to the offices and so forth.), allocate duties and make sure your employees are usually a master of the routine. Check that your own speak to listings tend to be up to date and available on and off internet site along with test your plan.
- Cross train your staff to relieve addiction to personal men and women. It is very important make sure that more than one person can do every company career so that you will are ready when several employees can not enter into operate.
: Make sure your business has the correct insurance policy. Review of your organization insurance coverage to make sure you are included to the important risks (at the.grams. harm, business disruption and so forth.).
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- Take a rest inside a sunnier weather. In the event the temperature is actually getting you down then it?s probably time to come out with a milder vacation spot. This may not only raise your feeling, but will charge the power packs, present you with time for you to feel as well as assist you to step back and take into account your company in the various gentle.
So that you can not customize the temperature, however, you can change the method that you plus your business plan regarding and reply to weather!
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