Where is the money of the residents of Haifa?
We here at Haifa follow closely the expenses (and some say, the waste) of Haifa Municipality. We consistently document unusual financial activity and bring it to you on this page
Cleansing the head - there is public money
Where is the money: The honorable city council members Galbhart and Borovsky as well as the chairman of the Green faction Yaron Hanan, react exclusively to Haifa regarding the money of the residents of Haifa.
The members of the opposition explain where the money is. You are invited to scroll down the page to review the responses
Here we will try to understand where the money of the residents of Haifa goes. Simple people, mostly people who have trouble making ends meet. Kneeling under the burden of the high property tax... one of the highest in Israel.
We will update here whenever there is a significant financial event.
In the five budgets 2008-2013 they did not look for the money, this management failure is the reason why Yona Yahav does not deserve to continue being mayor, his management concept does not seek efficiency, does not seek to create jobs, quality education, a green environment, city development, simply nothing.
A reading of the budget targets shows that the municipality seeks to preserve the existing and, in addition, as a marginal body, it needs donations and discount operations from the institutional and private patrons, so that everything that takes place in the city does not result from budget planning and execution, but from government donations and donations, and the distance to government-capital relations is one-way.
Yahav, of course, perfected the method for capital-government and a newspaper while breaking records for cynicism in the distribution of resources and charges for the media, parts of which return warmth and love, a huge cover-up to the point that those who do not live in the city may think that indeed Herzl Street and Hadar are the Champs Elysees and Haifa is really Barcelona like Yahav is none other than Golaini
When the few donations still arrive (the donor and his reasons - the rule is that there are no free gifts) they are wasted to create the appearance of a work and hence the majority of the money is spent on advertising, marketing, crazy gimmicks like beauty queens, raving billboards regardless of the reality of the work, most of them are illegal and especially Dangerous for pedestrians and the high and inflated property tax or water corporation levies become a platform for cheap advertising.
The main management tool of the Haifa municipality in the last 11 years is "you didn't do, you published, you did" most of the money is dedicated to blurring the citizen's vision and senses so for example every citizen is sure that light rail is a matter of days, since we have a "matron" an important and simple flower exhibition is not In the Haifa lexicon here everything is big, ostentatious and unfortunately wasteful to the point of horrifying 32 million damage estimate (the increase in property taxes this year is budgeted for only 22 million NIS)
It is forbidden to be drawn into a one-point search for the money, this is a mental error, but to look for what the budgets did in 5 years show us implementation. It does not exist because it is not planned in advance for the benefit of the citizen. Every basic management person knows that a budget is built against goals, it can be determined with certainty that 30-40% Over 500 million shekels disappear from the budget every year, go down the drain every year, and in the last five years, over two and a half billion shekels escaped from our pockets to cover management failures, extravagance, exuberance, for funny, wretched and sleazy projects alike
The money can be found in the number of budget planning discussions that Yahav sat in (according to the protocols there were none) the money can be found in the billboards and in the campaigns that show the style of old regimes, the money is in the pockets of the citizens at the beginning of the year goes to the city coffers and almost never returns to the citizen, the upcoming elections are a kind of Final exam, the replacement of Yona Yahav will cause hundreds of millions of shekels to reach the proper address. Yahav is an investment that is false and should be urgently transferred to safe stocks.
Naa asked, Naa demanded, and there is also: a long and wide cut in the number of government ministers.
However, it is still cutting, and its representative in Haifa is expanding and expanding.
Shai Abu-Hazeera, paid fourth deputy to the mayor, which was never required for more than 3.
This is also what the law states, and therefore it was necessary to request special permission for the special appointment.
And until we understand: the cost of a deputy mayor, even if he is fourth and unnecessary, including a bureau, secretary and assistant,
reaches about 700 thousand NIS a year and more.
Now let's check what the public is getting from Deputy Mayor Shai Abu Hachira:
And the mayor and the legal advisor, lawyers like them, listen and have nothing to say to him...
And so that there are no misunderstandings, Shay Abu-Hatira is not canceled! he works hard
Preparing his party's campaign for the next election, which probably leaves him too little time to fulfill his current commitments, for which he is fully paid, regardless of his performance.
To the question "Where is the money?" Many answers, this is just one of them.
To the question "Where does the money come from?" One answer…
Editor's note: Shay Abu Hatira
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I wish a fun Passover, and a green spring celebration!
Shmuel Galbhart, architect and urban planner
Chairman of the Haifa Greens in the City Council
What is "culture" in Haifa Municipality? Entertainment for the masses in the form of free artist shows for an audience that comes mostly from outside the city, and enjoys the performances of famous and very expensive singers, at the expense of the property tax money we pay!
What is "culture" in Haifa? Mass street party events involving drinking beer and intoxicating drinks on the street, including selling drinks to young people!
What is "culture" in Haifa? The opening of street stalls and others call it an "art fair".
All of these events were produced by the Haifa municipality especially in recent years, to try to flatter the residents of the city, apparently based on a false assumption that these huge expenses from the municipality's budget, will also have a clear expression on the ballot, at the end of the term.
Well It seems to me that Yona Yahav is expected to be disappointed. All his advisers misled him, the public in Haifa is not that stupid and does not buy this transparent attempt to buy his opinion.
Unfortunately, we will all pay the price immediately after the elections, in the next property tax bill and we are already seeing the terribly accelerated sale of urban public spaces to real estate developers, to cover the budget hole that these expenses in addition to the stadium project created in the municipal coffers!