When you can't afford the government you have

Drastic cuts in personnel is the only way to get Pottstown out of its current financial mess, according to a consultant.

Day 2 of a series in The Pottstown Mercury on the dire financial woes facing Pottstown focuses on the borough's administrative team.

With tax revenues declining, a small community like Pottstown cannot afford to have so many high-paid administrators, the consulting firm says.

From a story by reporter Evan Brandt:

The report calls for broad changes, perhaps the most significant of which are an elimination of the police dispatching office and the merger of the Pottstown Borough Authority and the Public Works Department.

Among the high-ranking borough positions which Cincinnati-based Management Partners Inc. has recommended eliminating are the Public Works Director, a post now held by long-time director Doug Yerger, and Assistant Borough Manager, currently occupied by Jason Bobst.

Read the full story, "Report calls for borough downsizing," at the newspaper's Web site.

For a look at the first part of the series, click here.