City Manager Struggles to Explain Budget
Fillmore resident Joan Archer took Fillmore City Manager Yvonne Quiring to task at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Archer found serious problems with Quiring’s handling of employee layoffs in that Quiring could not account for any savings to the city in hiring temporary and contract substitute workers.
Fillmore resident Joan Archer took Fillmore City Manager Yvonne Quiring to task at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Archer found serious problems with Quiring’s handling of employee layoffs in that Quiring could not account for any savings to the city in hiring temporary and contract substitute workers.
By Anonymous — Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

[The Gazette’s city reporter was absent this week]
A budget crisis is arising at city hall. City Manager Yvonne Quiring was unable to answer budget questions at Tuesday’s meeting, for the second week. After eliminating “fifty percent” of the city’s work force, in and out of city hall, and replacing many with temporary and contract workers, Quiring does not know what, if any, savings resulted.

For the second week chambers was filled with concerned citizens responding to expressed intentions by the council to close Fillmore’s parks and restrooms. City Manager Quiring suggested last week that, because Fillmore is such a small town, those participating in sporting events at the parks could run home to use bathroom facilities.

Councilman Steve Conaway expressed frustration in the Manager’s inability to provide specific answers to budget questions and time is very short for the mandated budget approval.