If you’ve got teenagers, you probably know that cell phone costs can add up. In Fiscal Year 2008 Ada County’s cell phone expenses totaled over a quarter of a million dollars ~ 285 thousand dollars, to be more specific.
As an advocate of zero-based budgeting, I have been looking for specific expenditures to examine in order to cut unnecessary spending. County cell phone plans and expenditures certainly deserve closer scrutiny. I am in the process of doing just that.