LC 2.13 Balanced Budget Repeal Ammendment (Sent to referendum)

[Adam Griffin]

I'm generally of the persuasion that there isn't much reason to purposefully confine a legislative body with respect to matters of budgetary balancing. While I am a big fan of bringing budgets under control and not spending more than we need or have, I feel this amendment as-is would effectively be the same as a balanced budget amendment without the two-thirds requirement; I'm not sure there'll ever be a situation in which a supermajority of Councilors will agree to run a deficit if they know they can simply obstruct it.

I'm open to persuasion, however.

[Adam Griffin]

Aye (but we'll want to clean up the language inevitably)