MY CONTINUED STATEMENTS IN SUPPORT OF POLICE RETENTION
I AM COMMITTED TO KEEPING OUR PVE LOCAL POLICE
The safety of our families priority #1
FISCAL INSTABILITY has placed our local police at risk, causing many in the force to quit and work for other cities.
We can not continue to kick the can down the road, rather than balancing our budget. In the last six years, our financial state has digressed, despite $3 million in Covid relief funds and savings from 25% staff vacancies.
We are running cash deficits and depleting our savings. This is not sustainable.
My father was a police chief in the military and as a civilian police chief.
This is my speech Jan 10, 2018, the night Council approved placing Measure E on the ballot.
I clearly state my support of retaining the police but objected to Measure E portrayed as a viable solution to our financial issues which places our police at risk.
It has now been six years and everything I predicted on this recording has been realized. Our police continue to quit to work for other cities.
We have yet to solve the issues that place our police at risk.
To really save our police, we must secure funding in the years ahead:
Solution: FINANCIAL SOLUTION.