City Elections: Ginny Miller on Financial Health

Patch recently asked the seven candidates running for New Port Richey City Council:  "How do you define whether the city is “financially healthy?” What are your ideas for making sure the city meet that definition, if it hasn’t already?"

We also asked:

"What’s your position on the ideas of cutting services, raising taxes or increasing fees as options for helping the city be financially healthy? What other strategies would you use?"

We got answers.

Here's what Ginny Miller had to say:

If we take in less than we spend, we’re not financially healthy.  We were created to provide for the “…health, safety, and welfare…” of our taxpayers.  Our job is to weigh and balance those goals and figure out  the best way to do that in within the confines of each budget year.

Each budget is a battle of ideas between and within City Council and Staff, and usually the best ones prevail.  The only budget (of 12) that I did not vote for contained only interest and no principle payment on CRA debt.

Find the other six candidates' responses to this question at our hub article.