UNNECESSARY SPENDING CONTINUES UNCHECKED
Let’s face it. Something had to give in terms of expenditures, even before the newly discovered loans popped up. But, instead of getting feedback from the public and making a priority list of spending cuts, the first target on the radar screen appears to, once again, be cutting IRB’s police protection. There is serious talk of cutting one officer, while plans for the redevelopment of Chic-a-Si Park move full speed ahead. This commission is talking fountains and bocce ball courts (part involves a grant; part does not!) out of the same mouths uttering “cut a cop.”
Ironically, Chic-a-Si Park happens to be located squarely in the center of the area on which the USF Study is focused. Yet, it appears that waiting for the study results to develop the chunk of land most vital to this area's vitality isn’t in the cards, so how important is this study anyway? There has never been one suggestion by the commission that the City exercise its cancellation clause in the USF contract and return the balance of the funds to the City during this financial crisis. Instead, the discussion centers on reducing our police protection and possibly even alternatively contracting with Indian Shores Police Department instead of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office as a cost-saving measure.
The commission also voted unanimously to assume full responsibility for the operation of the IRB Library just as this financial crisis unfolded, would you believe? Tomorrow’s posting deals with that issue more in depth.
Ironically, Chic-a-Si Park happens to be located squarely in the center of the area on which the USF Study is focused. Yet, it appears that waiting for the study results to develop the chunk of land most vital to this area's vitality isn’t in the cards, so how important is this study anyway? There has never been one suggestion by the commission that the City exercise its cancellation clause in the USF contract and return the balance of the funds to the City during this financial crisis. Instead, the discussion centers on reducing our police protection and possibly even alternatively contracting with Indian Shores Police Department instead of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office as a cost-saving measure.
The commission also voted unanimously to assume full responsibility for the operation of the IRB Library just as this financial crisis unfolded, would you believe? Tomorrow’s posting deals with that issue more in depth.
2 comments:
Isn’t Cookies business around the corner from the park? And isn’t the new design Daniel Torres’s? Fame at any cost.
I'm concerned that one of our elected commissioners has a personal vendetta against the police because of an incident that happend a few months ago. It appears that he/she continues to carry an axe and will do whatever it takes to get even. Go back to high school...and don't take the city's protection because you have a personal problem. Crime is up and you want to cut the cops! Mr/Ms Commissioner...maybe you could offer the criminals a book instead. Stop being stupid.
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