{"id":1607,"date":"2005-07-25T13:56:47","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T13:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2005-07-25T13:56:47","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T13:56:47","slug":"mayor_cieslewic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Cieslewicz Comments on Doyle&#8217;s State Budget Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/index.iml?Article=41319\">Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cContrary to what some have claimed, this is not a \u2018fully-funded freeze\u2019. Such a freeze would have increased shared revenues to reflect the rising costs for providing basic services, and account for inflation in the freeze formula itself. This budget does neither. Adjusting for inflation, this year\u2019s budget effectively cuts our shared revenue payment by 6%, on the heels of a 16% shared revenue cut in the prior budget.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile city government continues to tighten its belt, property taxes rise faster than inflation because more of our budget must be borne by the property tax. Fifteen years ago property taxes made up 54% of Madison\u2019s budget. Today, thanks to continually eroding state aids, property taxes make up almost 70% of our budget. In other words, what is truly driving property taxes is not increased spending, but cuts in state aids. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz: \u201cContrary to what some have claimed, this is not a \u2018fully-funded freeze\u2019. Such a freeze would have increased shared revenues to reflect the rising costs for providing basic services, and account for inflation in the freeze formula itself. This budget does neither. Adjusting for inflation, this year\u2019s budget effectively cuts our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}