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1 Restaurant Birthdays Graduation Prom Engagement Anniversary Weddings Reserve your special occasion with us! Making memories for 35 years. Part five of a series exploring key i ssues facing the four city of Monroe mayoral candidates. Keeping a finances on a stable fiscal footing, saving taxpayer dollars and working to pass balanced budgets, is a challenging task for the leader of a city. Fund balances and bond ratings are something a mayor orks diligently to improve for maintaining operations across city departments. Monroe Mayor Jamie Mayo believes the city is on sound financial round.

need to continue the track on, which is he said. During 14 years in office, the city has generated a fund balance of The sum provides an ample surplus to operate the city for three months should the need arise. And while Mayo admits the city deals with debt, he said the city has developed means to avoid delving into the fund balance. have a mechanism in place to deal with a lot KEYS TO THE CITY Finding fiscal success BOB LENOX BATON ROUGE Gov. John Bel dwards, who has come under fire from critics for his doomsday budget forecast if law- akers agree to raise taxes, said he regret illus- rating worst-case scenarios like university and hospital closures.

the facts scare people good Edwards said Friday in an interview with Gannett Louisiana. facts be Edwards: Budget crisis i what me up at GREG HILBURN John Bel Edwards I environment, Robert Mitcham help but wonder, maybe the only dinosaur Mitcham is Claiborne boys basketball coach. And girls basketball coach. And JV basketball coach. And junior high basketball coach.

The workload and balancing of time required may seem impossible for one person, but Mitcham thinks he gets spoiled when he have so many things going on at nce. In that sense, he is bucking the trend. Age of is how a 2011 Harvard usiness Journal labeled the coming years in workforce configuration. The authors say job titles, especially in fields such as manufacturing, will become more concise and duties more specific, adding steps in manufacturing processes but in theory making the entire operation smoother. The institution of high school athletics is not immune: the year-round time demands on many high school football and basketball coaches have confined them to just that sport, unable to even serve as an assistant in another sport.

not that they multitask many are actually quite good at it. They simply have to multitask within their primary sport to ompete. nothing new to me. Multitasking is something always done, because I had to do it where I came Mitcha said. just seems natural.

I know it any other HANNAH Claiborne Christian's Robert Mitcham shouts as he watches the school's varsity basketball team play during their final home game. A FULL-COURT PRESS not Houdini, but a juggling act. a constant juggling act. a challenge, and always loved a challenge. And I need a challenge in my life right now.

It keeps me young as possible. It keeps the juices ROBERT MITCHAM CLAIBORNE CHRISTIAN COACH Coaching multiple teams seems for Claiborne Mitcham BRETT HUDSON.