Delaware

I went to the one hosted by my New Castle County (NCCo) Council Rep (Jea Street) last Thursday at the Rose Hill Community Center. Turnout wasn’t great — maybe 50 residents — and the room had many county employees on hand to answer questions if need be (and a few of them did).

If you haven’t seen it, the Budget Presentation (entirely presented by County Executive Chris Coons) is on the county’s website. In a fairly detailed presentation, Chris Coons walked through this discussion focused on (mostly) high visibility services, their costs and employees; discussed the revenue shortfalls and the budget hole; talked about options to close that budget hole (relating the typical tax bill to what gets paid for cable or cell phones) and then asked people directly for their comments and input.