Yaron Carmi's blog - opinion column
As a resident of Haifa, I expect to see that every shekel I pay in property taxes is carefully invested and managed.
I want my money to be invested in education, trash removal, law enforcement, business development, welfare, exemplary city planning And mostly humble.
I and the other residents of Haifa have a right and even a public duty to demand from the municipality's employees to serve the public and carry out their public work diligently and modestly, while respecting every shekel of our money entrusted to them on a daily basis. Modesty conveys something very significant for me, especially when it comes to taxpayers' money and not private money accumulated from doing business.
Haifa is a city whose inhabitants are characterized by modesty. The socio-economic situation of many of the city's residents is not good and many of them are below the poverty line. I see some of them many times rummaging through the trash cans around the city and my heart is really saddened by the poverty and poverty that plague this city mercilessly, along with the pollution and the sick. Also the street crime that is in every corner [url=http://haipo.co.il/forum/search.php?author_id=4160&sr=posts:1xc79vyv]and is reported here live here every day, by the Haifa police[/url:1xc79vyv] , indicates that many people are relegated to the ever-expanding margins.
Much has already been said here about the wasteful barge budget of the Haifa municipality, which amounts to approximately NIS 7 million: the Haifa municipality maintains an inflated barge wing, which invests, and some say, wastes, over 7 million NIS a year from your property tax money on public relations.
The necessity of a spokeswoman division should not be underestimated, since the division performs many positive and necessary actions vis-à-vis the taxpayer and the media. There are dedicated and hardworking people in the barge division, whom I know personally, appreciate and cherish. Their word is a word, a response is a response and the commitment to the public is around the clock.
But alongside the positive action, there are also other wasteful actions, which deal with expensive original productions of videos designed to glorify the speaker or the wing itself or the mayor, as you will see in the film before you.
In these original productions, actors and field reporters (some of them municipal workers seen in many films produced by the division), photographers, editors, expensive photographic equipment, computers and expensive editing software, and more take part.
In modest and matter-of-fact organizations it is customary to submit a short year-end report of a number of lines describing the projects that the business division did during the year and are worthy of note, for the purpose of learning and extracting lessons. The process of summarizing a year in a business organization lasts about an hour and is submitted to an appointed level.
But in the spokes division of the municipality of Haifa, a modest year-end report is not enough and modesty is apparently a dirty word, even when the entire "source productions" budget comes from our property taxes... and so they continue to waste public money flamboyantly on films and source productions, as if it were at least In the Hollywood PR department.
I, by the way, did not enjoy the film, perhaps because I did not find a connection between the way things were presented and a serious and dignified summary of a business / public year... and perhaps because a bare-bellied woman doesn't connect to a summary of a year in a city plagued by unemployment, pollution and poverty... a question of taste...
A "pleasant" viewing, you pay for it, at least see to the end what you paid for... I couldn't make it to the end of the movie (4:46 minutes).
for further reading:
Analysis of the municipality's results at the end of the 10-year tenure of Yona Yahav and his team
Screenshot: from the YouTube website
XXX was deleted by the website managementXXX Tarno was already convicted of forgery and fraud and was given a job without a tender while Minkowski only received a derogatory mark from the senior criminal and police letters who sent harsh letters against him to the Ministry of Homeland Security and claimed that he was irresponsible and harmful to the ministry..
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/164/263.html
You will surely see the result of extravagance on 6 speakers in the Haifa municipality in the upcoming property tax bill.
You just didn't understand. This is a video for children up to the age of 10, well up to the age of 13.
And with regard to spending money on advertising, did we already say signs?
Does anyone know what the total annual budget for spokespeople and advertising is, as a percentage of the total annual budget of the municipality.