Budget Search Update

Ugh....

Just a quick update on my search for an electronic version of the budget:

The Mayor's Office, after noting the mayor is out the rest of the week, said probably the Law Department would be the best place to get moving on a copy of the budget. Strike one.

The Law Office directed us to the Clerk's office to pick up a copy. Strike two.

The Clerk's Office was completely thrown by our request for an electronic version of the budget, and referred us to the Mayor's Office. Strike three, and we skulk back to the dugout shaking our head.

Here's our question for the Mayor's Office (which helpfully noted the budget is a public document. Thanks for that) and the Clerk's Office: We're guessing the budget wasn't banged out on typewriter. In fact, if we had to wager, we'd think Microsoft Word was somehow involved in the whole thing. So why can't we get a copy e-mailed to us today? We'll try again when the mayor gets back, but jeez.

UPDATE: Apparently, councilors have only received a summary of the budget, with the full budget being delivered on Friday. At this point, we have no illusions of getting the budget before a councilor, so we'll wait until next week to restart our pursuit. We will note, however, that it seems a bit, um, politically arrogant/presumptuous/impolite of the mayor to laying out budget information without the council being fully informed. But we might be wrong about that.