This is how local municipalities die-----Muskegon Accountability Project: Starting the year $688,000 in the hole!

Muskegon Accountability Project: Starting the year $688,000 in the hole!
Starting the year $688,000 in the hole!

The first video from Nov. 19, 2019 ...shows the Muskegon county finance director explain the county budget for the coming year "...will have a shortfall of $688,000 in the general fund...".

• Note that every commissioner AND county administrator Mark Eisenbarth is in attendance.
• One might assume this disastrous announcement would be something worthy of remembering.

The following video, only 3 months later, 2-18-2020, 

...and that disturbing financial bombshell is "disappeared from memory".

• Notice how EVERY commissioners except Zach Lahring sits silent during the entire discussion?
• Notice when the county administrator assures EVERYONE there was no shortfall?
• Notice how the county administrator assured EVERYONE in the room that "... the board approved a balanced budget Oct 1st (2019)...", a date weeks BEFORE the $688,000 shortfall was announced.
• As if the Board could "wish" bad thoughts out of the room?
• Notice how both county employees refuse to give understandable answers to a very reasonable question from the representative of the people to a county employee about where the money went?
• Do you notice that, with the exception of Commissioner Lahring, not one other commissioner bothers to offer follow-up questions?
• Do you notice how bored the other commissioners appear?
• Do you now start to understand just HOW MUSKEGON GOT TO BE THE WORST FINANCIALLY MANAGED COUNTY IN OUR STATE?