Thank you for support of food drive
Editor, The Sun:
We wanted to give a huge thank you to all who donated to our Big Food event. We fed 509 families with household numbers of 1,904. We also fed the Wakulla Senior Center and the Wakulla Fire Department.
Wakulla, y’all truly don’t know how awesome y’all are! The prices ranged from $20 to $1,000!
Mack’s Country Meats, y’all worked so hard to help make this happen as well! Thank you!
Thank you to all the volunteers who help make the event possible.
Also thank you to Farm Share, Second Harvest, Pepsi, and krispy Kreme, as well as the community for donating toward the non-meats.
We look forward to working with wakulla to help better our community!
Here are the names of the ones who would give name or business to the meat fund for our big food event on Nov. 4th:
Mack’s Meats, Dirty Beach Cleaning, Anytime Electric, Derek Borders, Christina, Mr & Mrs Whaley, Jeff from Shell Island, Amy at Capital City Bank, Patel, Mike’s Feed Store, Bobby Maralie,Kenny Kenzy, Rachel Pienta, Nicky Hair Therapy, Callaway, Shari, Michelle Stege, Lee, Righteous Ink, Momma J Tattoo, Sam Arcure, The Dunns, Ward Waff, Joel Singletary, The Shack, Joyce Padgett, Aseden’s Heart, Dura Door, Body Tek, Heather Harris, Kristi Olah, Howard Jackson, Victoria Stewart,DJ & Gabe Tointigh, Collectable Arms, Fred Nichols, Wakulla Rotary Club, BW Grill, First Baptist Ochlocknee Bay, Kenny Donner, Freddy Kilgore, Brooke Mohr, Crystal Johnson, Crawfordville Animal Hospital, Coastal Roofing, Lara Swafford, Jamie Rozer, Jaqueline Field, Pat Cerwin, and Kelly Byrd.
Casey Kimbrell
County budget shouldn’t include tax error
Editor, The Sun:
I was very happy to see Mr. De La Paz’s letter “$307 Million tax error is not a shortfall,” Letter to Editor) put in a succinct manner that hopefully many can understand. He is exactly right and I felt the same way upon reading the news on one of Wakulla Citizens Facebook page. I read all the clamor about taxes being raised and even PM’ed the administrator that all the worry about taxes increasing was misplaced because SURELY the county agencies would not spend money they DO NOT actually have. They would do what any of us would do, recalculate our INCORRECT budget to reflect reality and then move on from there.
But, alas, government agencies and their intrepid managers see extra money like a shark sees blood and dive straight for the funds, but, like an AI generated pot of gold, it’s just an illusion. The danger for us taxpayers is if the agencies INCLUDE this illusion in their budgets they will no doubt scream about a BUDGET CUT next year and thus the clarion call for a tax increase will fill the air.
Perhaps if we look at this situation from an average citizen perspective it will help. Thus, if I purchased a Pick 4 lottery ticket every week from a guy named Ed at the store and one week Ed checked my ticket and said I had won $307,000,000 and I could collect the money from a lady named Lisa in three days I would be ecstatic! I would go home and make a list of all the things I wanted to buy and create a BUDGET for me and my family to live to enjoy.
When I went to see Lisa after the three days she told me that Ed had made an ERROR and that 40 other people had also won the $307 million. I would still win the money but it would be much less. Now, would I continue to buy all the items that I had planned on and stay with my windfall budget?
Maybe I’m expecting too much from our county budget administrators to use the common sense most of us were born with but I, much like most of you, understand the concept of “Living within our Means.” It is an age-old practice that actually works and provides financial security. Spending money that is not really there is a recipe for fiscal disaster.
Removing the error and operating on what would be a normal year operational budget should not cause any undue hardship or require emptying our “reserves.”
Let us all hope our local government acts responsibly. Amen
Tim Caldwell
Panacea
