Economies of Scale
Charlotte believes she can spend whatever it takes in an emergency. She has said as much at the July 11 Council meeting and on KLRZ today. Well where does it stop, as Capt. Kirk asked? Do we spend $30 million to protect $5 million worth of homes? Ain't there a cost/benefit analysis we should do along the way? Not according to Charlotte. She apparently never learned about the economies of scale. You have to determine whether it is reasonable to spend a given amount of money to avoid a given risk.
If it turns out she derives her authority in an emergency from the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, which the jury is still out on, she has authority to "utilize all available resources of the local government as reasonably necessary to cope with the local disaster or emergency." The expense has to be reasonably necessary. Reasonableness is determined on case by case basis. Therefore, some sort of analysis must be done. As I wrote before, she does not have authority to hysterically spend our money.
So, if, in fact, we have a Parish President with no sense of proportionality when it comes to expending Public money, what or who is a bigger risk to Parish finances, a natural disaster or Charlotte Randolph? She could bankrupt us.
Charlotte believes she can spend whatever it takes in an emergency. She has said as much at the July 11 Council meeting and on KLRZ today. Well where does it stop, as Capt. Kirk asked? Do we spend $30 million to protect $5 million worth of homes? Ain't there a cost/benefit analysis we should do along the way? Not according to Charlotte. She apparently never learned about the economies of scale. You have to determine whether it is reasonable to spend a given amount of money to avoid a given risk.
If it turns out she derives her authority in an emergency from the Louisiana Homeland Security and Emergency Assistance and Disaster Act, which the jury is still out on, she has authority to "utilize all available resources of the local government as reasonably necessary to cope with the local disaster or emergency." The expense has to be reasonably necessary. Reasonableness is determined on case by case basis. Therefore, some sort of analysis must be done. As I wrote before, she does not have authority to hysterically spend our money.
So, if, in fact, we have a Parish President with no sense of proportionality when it comes to expending Public money, what or who is a bigger risk to Parish finances, a natural disaster or Charlotte Randolph? She could bankrupt us.
posted by Carl A. Chauvin at 11:49 AM
1 Comments:
If the prez could have taken the back way out she would have on the radio show today, fact is, under pressure she faulters, she will be a great politician because she can never answer a question with a direct answer and she can never recall what she started out saying so she has to repeat herself over and over again to make sense to herself then her time is up. Oops, what was the question? Next?
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