Neary-Sighted

Once again, we are live from the floor of City Hall in yet another budget hearing. It's 8:50 p.m., and it's still unclear whether a majority of council members will agree to extend community policing throughout our community. The formal vote on the budget may come as early as next Monday's council meeting.

In case you are wondering, I am posting this courtesy of the wifi from the Starbucks across the parking lot. I hope this post is worth to you the $10 I paid to sign on!

I'm afraid we don't have much of an update. Only Doug Richardson and I have said we support community policing in all six neighborhoods. The Lakewood CARES group is criticizing city spending in general: how awful the budget process is, how overpaid the emploeyes are, and so forth. They don't like spending, period. Neither do the rest of us, of course. But they sure like to talk and talk and talk about how awful spending is.

As always, they have a point. We need to do a better job of monitoring spending and priorities. We can always do better. What I want to know as I type this is whether we will fund adequate police protection in 2008 or not.

Well, the hearing ended and we still don't know where people stand on community policing. Well, there's always Monday ...
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