Quote Originally Posted by Hoosier View Post
What did he say when you told him that?

Colorado Springs budget crunch has made national headlines several times. Either you get low taxes, or you get government offices that are open seven days a week. Of course most people's response would be, "Buuuut I need to use XYZ government service, it should be open! Cut the other programs I don't care about so the ones I do are available!"

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303473
http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/fr...ters/19788505/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=123691065

It'll be interesting to see what happens with their experiment in the long term.

H.
^This.

Would you rather they tax and spend more?

CS has voted over and over again to keep taxes relatively low and voter approved initiatives like TABOR have also kept the city from taking in a lot of money. They don't have enough money to run everything so they shut many services down...or reduce the hours of others. Has been happening for years. It's not a bad thing when a city shuts things down because they don't have funding. If only our federal government would take a clue from this and start cutting services rather than running up debt. Just about the only profitable CS city organization is CS Utilities and now the rest of the city is trying to create a shell game to take that money from the Utilities to use elsewhere.

The one thing to take away from this is the Colorado Springs voters have kept taxes and fees low and during a recession they bring in even less so that's why you have fewer and fewer services in CS everyday. If you want that place to be open on Friday, vote to raise your taxes...
I personally think it's more important to keep one more bus running, keep one more fireman working or keep a library open rather than keep a recycling place open 7 days per week, IMO.