Ferguson to Increase Police Ticketing to Close City’s Budget Gap

To close a projected deficit for fiscal 2014, which ended June 30, the municipality will deplete a $10 million capital-projects reserve, Jeffrey Blume, Ferguson’s finance director, said in a telephone interview. For the current year, the city is budgeting for higher receipts from police-issued tickets.

“There are a number of things going on in 2014 and one is a revenue shortfall that we anticipate making up in 2015,” Blume said.
“There’s about a million-dollar increase in public-safety fines to make up the difference.”

Revenue from violations, which already represents the city’s second-largest source of cash after sales taxes, will rise to 15.7 percent of receipts in fiscal 2015, from a projected 11.8 percent this year, he said. In 2013, fines brought in $2.2 million, or 11.8 percent of the city’s $18.62 million in annual revenue, according to budget documents.
Last Reserve

Even with the increased ticketing, a $4.09 million revenue shortfall will remain for fiscal 2015. The city will bridge that gap by drawing on its $10.3 million unassigned reserve, the last of its reserve funds, Blume said. Moody’s Investors Service cited an inability to maintain reserves at satisfactory levels as a potential downgrade trigger in a report from December 2012http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/ferguson-to-increase-police-ticketing-to-close-city-s-budget-gap.html.

In plain language:
"that shit we pulled of ripping off citizens for spurious tickets, we're gonna do more of it"

Guess what else was hiding in the monster budget bill? turning Ukraine into Viet Nam.

In cas anyone has missed seeing this............

Free download of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement draft.

This document is the EU's offer regarding services and investment, presented on the 26th of may 2014.
In particular, it is a list of reservations outlining where the EU is not going to allow full market access to the US, or offer equal national treatment, in respect of services of various classes.

According to its proponents, the agreement opens a way for economic growth and job creation in the participating nations.
On the other hand, critics argue that it implies a deregulation of key markets that limits the acting capacity of national governments in favour of big business. The lack of transparency surrounding the negotiations has been a subject of discontent on both sides of the Atlantic.

https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/06/13/4.html

I posted in another OP the download page for the TISA (Trade in Services Agreement), here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025971038

Free download of Provisions of the secret TISA negotiations

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The following release is a bilingual copy of the Proposal of New Provisions Applicable to All Services and the Annex on Professional Services of the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA). The main players in the top secret negotiations are the United States and all 28 members of the European Union. However, the broad scope of the treaty includes Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan and Turkey, adding up almost 70% of all trade in services worldwide.

The TISA negotiations aim to further deregulate the world trade in services outside the framework of the World Trade Organization, as important players and their powerful lobbies attempt to overcome pressure of reform after the financial crisis of 2007. If successful, the ample scope in volume of trades will force other countries inside WTO to accept or lose their ability to compete.

down loadable pdf File starts halfway down page, here:
https://data.awp.is/filtrala/2014/12/17/19.html

Cal. Hwy. Patrol: Former military personnel.........adapt well to our paramilitary environment.

From the Hiring page of Cal. Hwy Patrol:

Here are the names of the Dems who voted FOR the spending bill that Warren warned against:

the vote was 219-206.

The Dems needed 14 votes to kill the bill.
5 Dems did not vote.

139 Dems and 67 Republicans voted against it.


These 57 Dems gave Citibank the freedom from regulation it wanted:
Wasserman Schultz, D. (D-FL-23)
Sinema, K. (D-AZ-9)
Sherman, B. (D-CA-30)
Sewell, T. (D-AL-7)
Scott, D. (D-GA-13)
Schwartz, A. (D-PA-13)
Schneider, B. (D-IL-10)
Ruppersberger, C. (D-MD-2)
Ruiz, R. (D-CA-36)
Peters, G. (D-MI-14)
Peters, S. (D-CA-52)
Perlmutter, E. (D-CO-7)
Pastor, E. (D-AZ-7)
Owens, W. (D-NY-21)
Norcross, D. (D-NJ-1)
Murphy, P. (D-FL-18)
Moran, J. (D-VA-8)
Miller, G. (D-CA-11)
Meeks, G. (D-NY-5)
McCarthy, C. (D-NY-4)
Matheson, J. (D-UT-4)
Maloney, S. (D-NY-18)
Maffei, D. (D-NY-24)
Lowey, N. (D-NY-17)
Lipinski, D. (D-IL-3)
Kuster, A. (D-NH-2)
Kind, R. (D-WI-3)
Kaptur, M. (D-OH-9)
Hoyer, S. (D-MD-5)
Horsford, S. (D-NV-4)
Himes, J. (D-CT-4)
Garamendi, J. (D-CA-3)
Gallego, P. (D-TX-23)
Foster, B. (D-IL-11)
Fattah, C. (D-PA-2)
Farr, S. (D-CA-20)
Dingell, J. (D-MI-12)
Delaney, J. (D-MD-6)
Davis, S. (D-CA-53)
Cuellar, H. (D-TX-28)
Crowley, J. (D-NY-14)
Costa, J. (D-CA-16)
Connolly, G. (D-VA-11)
Clyburn, J. (D-SC-6)
Clay, W. (D-MO-1)
Carney, J. (D-DE-1)
Richmond, C. (D-LA-2)
Quigley, M. (D-IL-5)
Price, D. (D-NC-4)
Bustos, C. (D-IL-17)
Brownley, J. (D-CA-26)
Brady, R. (D-PA-1)
Bishop, T. (D-NY-1)
Bishop, S. (D-GA-2)
Bera, A. (D-CA-7)
Barrow, J. (D-GA-12)
Barber, R. (D-AZ-2)

These 5 Dems did not vote:

Smith, A. (D-WA-9)
Negrete McLeod, G. (D-CA-35)
Duckworth, T. (D-IL-8)
Cleaver, E. (D-MO-5)
Capuano, M. (D-MA-7



http://votecruncher.com/rollcalls/house/113-congress/2014/december/12/roll-no-563/democrat-counts

Cheney's holiday pic is out

Pic ........thousands of marchers in NYC this am......"there's something happening here........."

Ferguson protesters win lawsuit against police!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!