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I voted against Frankfort's current trash fee, which is just a regressive property fee that is only called a 'trash fee' in order to legally exploit a Kentucky Revised Statute that allows us to charge a fee for garbage collection.  This fee is currently the equivalent of raising the average property taxes 25% while not allowing a voter referendum on the matter.  

When the City Commission was considering it's most recent budget last summer, I presented an alternative to the proposed trash fee.  The sole purpose of this fee is raise new revenue to help balance the budget.  It's not in our constituent's best interests to raise taxes during a recession, especially when we haven't exhausted potential cost-saving measures yet.

I agree that the waste in city government is staggering right now. I believe we need more accountability within each department’s budget and work force. I think the most important thing to establish is a better system of oversight. Right now there’s no easy way to identify exactly who (and which departments) are underperforming, other than with anecdotal information (which is valuable, but hardly thorough).