Parkersburg City Council reviews city budget

Does that $1.4 million carryover draw interest?

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Bigger and bigger and bigger, the budget ever grows as our government continues to bloat. All on the back of the suffering citizens who have to live within their means during this disaster of an economy.

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4wd means 4 wheels spinning instead of 2 wheels on ice. Newell ain't gonna be mayor forever,...just remember that....

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As much as I hate the user fee, it is the only way to get the people of Belpre, Marietta and the surrounding areas who use our streets and services, more than their own, to help maintain them.

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I bet everyone reading this would love to have a pay raise. Instead we take home LESS as OUR EMPLOYEES (the Government workers) take home MORE (of OUR money).

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TAX NEWELL states he anticipates the user fee being a topic of this budget. Really??? I think his "guilty" conscience is starting to show itself. Of course it is a topic. You are charging everyone too much when you can give 3/4 of a million in pay increases, new SUV's, etc. This council needs to step up and quit agreeing with everything he wants. Remember, everyone has a conscience and his is just beginning to show.........

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Tinfoilhat, how about all those people that work in Parkersburg, yet not live here, simply never spend any of that money they earn? They can simply not eat at our restaurants, buy our gas, shop in our stores, or use any service that businesses provide. On top of that, ever city and state can build a wall and charge any non resident a fee for entering and exiting their zone of control.

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In response to MadAsHeck - I would like nothing more than to never see a car with Ohio license plates dragging their exhaust pipe on our streets again. To prove my point about how many people from across the river come here to work, using our streets and services, all you have to do is stand at the base of the Belpre bridge in the morning and see which way the traffic is flowing or which way it goes at quitting time.

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Why are folks so mad at your average city worker? Because they are "government"?? These folks do NOT make much money. They go much longer than private industry folks without raises. I have worked in private and public sectors. Public Sector employee's are not overpaid for the most part. Don't confuse them with politicans who the real problem is. These are just regular accountants, IT specialist, police and firemen, etc... just trying to get by. There paychecks are dwindling just like yours.

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Tinfoilhat, is your car built in Parkersburg, are all of your clothes made in Parkersburg, is all of your food grown here, is your computer made here, your TV, your furniture, any medicine you take? You do realize all those things come from other states and other cities and other countries? How do you think they get here? Perhaps Parkersburg should levy a tax on every purchase YOU make of items not made within the city limits?

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MadAsHeck - most everything is made in China, so...

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Tinfoilhat: So? Where is your outrage? How dare they drive on Parkersburg's streets to deliver YOUR merchandise? They should be taxed and so should you, for daring use our streets to deliver the junk you buy.

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The only other solutions to help maintain the roads and services used in Parkersburg by people who work here but don't pay taxes here would be to literally collect the user fee from only people who work here and don't have a Parkersburg address.

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I guess it would also be possible for the state to subsidize border-county gasoline prices by ten cents a gallon to get that thirty cents in road taxes if it encouraged out-of-state residents who use our roads to purchase their gasoline here instead of immediately across the state line, but that would be a complicated issue to handle and would probably only contribute to the state maintained roads.

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First off you can't go blaming all the junk cars with OH plates on Ohio. Wnen my kids were at McKinley school 80% of the cars had OH plates. Its called insurance fraud. Insurance is cheaper in OH and you don't have to carry as high as amount. Hate to tell you but a lot of those "OH" drivers are really cheating WVirginians. I know one of them hit my house.

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Just love Mr Rockhold's hairdo.

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Sounds like kelly is the only council member doing their job. Every one else sounds like they are going to be yes men to newell.if we can afford pay raises then we dont need user fee.

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