Mayor Sam Jones missed the Aug. 20 deadline to submit a proposed budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year to the Mobile City Council. Jones sent a letter to council members saying he did not believe he had enough reliable financial information to make an accurate projection of revenues for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, city attorney Larry Wettermark said.The economic recession, which has intensified in Mobile in recent months, has made it "extraordinarily challenging" for city officials to come up with reliable estimates, Wettermark said.
I thought Mobile was doing great in the economic recession Mayor Jones and Wettermark. Now all of sudden it’s not. Now is the time to come clean and tell us what the Mayor is planning to do with the budget…..I imagine he want to trim the budget as well huh. Mayor Jones withheld this information until no one qualified to run again him in the upcoming election on Tuesday. I hate this type of politics.
Mobile mayor Sam Jones is unopposed in Tuesday election along with three other council members in district 4,5, and 7. William Carroll, Fred Richardson, Clinton Johnson and Connie Hudson all are challenged.
