My previous letter about the shell game was in reference to the misleading budget numbers fed to The Laconia Daily Sun by the county administration. While the good representative was penning his smoke and mirrors rebuttal, he and his constituents would have been better served by looking at the upcoming, proposed 2018 county budget. If he had, he might have noticed that the amount originally appropriated for 2017 (prior to twowasteful attempts to get a supplemental appropriation) appears to have been more than adequate for county operations for the year. The county administration projects that the 2017 expenses will total $27,067,571, which is $419,892 less than the $27,487,463 original appropriation. I will commend Rep. Huot for the use of quotation marks surrounding the word surplus, as they indicate the use of a euphemism.

Source: Daily Sun December 07, 2017 09:56 UTC