Miscellaneous

Now How Much Would You Save? The Cost Savings of Ending Civil Unions in Kern County

By Anne Skove, Esq.

Recall that Kern County, California, had decided to stop all civil weddings *not* as a protest against the state supreme court's decision on gay marriage, mind you, but to save taxpayer money.

Now a report says the total cost savings would amount to (drumroll, please): $171.00.

Don't spend it all in one place!

The discrepancy (the court claimed it would save $18,000 annually) comes from how the numbers were crunched. The court's initial number included administrative overhead. The lower number from the county does not.

We are terrible at numerical crunching so please see for yourselves: County Top Administrator Says No Savings by Ending Civil Weddings, Carol Ferguson, Bakersfield Now (July 8, 2008).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).