County Executive Sam Page has announced the Kennedy Aquatic Center in South County will not open this summer and hours for the South County Government Center will be reduced. There is no reason to make these and other cuts. Ever since the County Council made necessary reductions to his proposed 2026 budget, Page has recklessly been making unnecessary cuts just to blame the council.
The cuts were made to Page’s inflated budget, not county services. Page always wants to spend much more money than there is. The County Council’s budget coordinator said the county would go bankrupt in two years if the council went with the Page spending. Budget deficits don’t just happen. They are the result of not matching spending to revenue, regardless of the amounts.
Page claims the repairs to the aquatic center would be $100,000 or more. That’s small change to what the county has been spending with its misplaced priorities. Some of the questionable county expenditures and bad decisions in recent years:…