Last May, when then-County Administrator Julie Ayers presented the budget to the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors she gave the members a summary of the numbers that staff had prepared, expecting it would be passed fairly well intact.
“In the budget that’s been proposed, there’s been a number of assumptions, not by elected officials, whose chore it is to do that job,” said Supervisor Chip Davis, whoi took exception to the summary.
Carol Springer, who, at the time was District 1 supervisor, called the long process Davis wanted a “dog-and-pony show,” referring to the way in which each county department would come forward and explain its proposed budget.
But now, Springer and Ayers are gone – and Davis is still on the board – and it looks as if the multi-day departmental presentations will be back for this year’s budget deliberations.
