While my elected colleagues recognize the current funding for public safety is inadequate my request to review all possible funding mechanisms including consulting our citizens about a public safety tax has thus far been rejected. Unfortunately, the funds needed to meet our public safety needs from our current funds are not there. At the last council meeting my colleagues added over $400,000 to next year’s budget for a recurring expense “hoping they can find the funds for the new expense.”
Protecting Turlock: Options to fund public safety
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