{"id":2457095,"date":"2020-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=324264"},"modified":"2020-04-13T06:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:23:44","slug":"city-of-aspen-getting-better-at-blowing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/city-of-aspen-getting-better-at-blowing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Aspen getting better at blowing money"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five million dollars, $6 million, what\u2019s the right number? No one knows. Aspen City Council is firing off a lot of off-budget taxpayer money, hoping some will stick to the wall of suffering in the valley.<\/p>\n

Who will select deserving recipients? Will they be truly deserving? Compared to whom? Existing infrastructure of charities and government departments have some but limited capacity to make defensible decisions; they weren\u2019t built for emergencies like this. When it\u2019s in the rearview mirror, examples will emerge of self-dealing, cronyism and incompetence. All very predictable.<\/p>\n

But when hindsight is applied, try to remember these are unprecedented times requiring unprecedented measures. Many valley residents are in need. The city of Aspen wastes at least $6 million year in and year out. This is a better use of city resources than many others we have seen.<\/p>\n

Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n

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