Finance Advisory Board

Seven years ago in 2011, this blog stated--

Meetings of the FAB should be productive not talk fests for board members. The Finance Department is on top of everything. This board is advisory and a total waste of time. It has no power. It has no affect. It can't even get desired information in order to come to an intelligent conclusion. The public can't get any back-up online. It is there to keep members of the Board busy.

Originally its objective was to rubber stamp city hall. Now the energy has shifted to question every little detail coming out of Finance or decisions made by this Commission. And certain people in this community want it to exist as it becomes more political as certain FAB members insist on discussing and hashing over personal agendas. The Fabulous FAB started off with good intentions. Unfortunately that's all the meat it had.

That was 2011. In the early years many members resigned like chair John Pickett,  Laurel Decker CPA,  Jennifer Marchal CPA, Ron Exline and Bill Thrasher. What has changed in 2018?

One thing the city did was fire the Chair, Richard Guercio...he had too many normal requests of staff although that was not the reason given.

After attending the FAB meeting Of June 4th, there was no back-up and now this board does not appear on the city's web site. (today 3 agendas appear on the web site)