John Herbst
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9,624 appearances
59 recordings
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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You know, one of the challenges we're having right now is with police overtime.
We have consistently under budgeted police overtime since I've been here.
I've never seen a year in which we've budgeted a sufficient amount of money for police overtime.
Um
We've called this out in fact in budget review after budget review when I was the auditor about the failure to appropriately fund the amount of overtime necessary to manage the city in an effective way.
And particularly as we have vacancies within the department, that drives the overtime budget up even more.
So please let's focus on our public safety, let's focus on having the right complement of folks
When we have non emergency calls that are taking an hour to respond to, that's unacceptable for my community.
As we're trying to put more resources now towards addressing the homeless issue, that means we need more personnel out there.
Um
We need the overtime for call outs.
I don't wanna see our department being hamstrung because they're not giving the resources that they need to effectively do their job and protect the community.
Um one thing I've said before and I will say it again the first, last and only important job in the city is public safety.
Thank you.
That doesn't need to be the starting point.
Let's look at areas to cut back that are non-essential before we start looking at the taxpayers to pay more, especially with everything that's going on right now, Mayor.
I don't think when we're looking at folks in my district that are that are a lot of them and seniors in condos that are facing exorbitant assessment increases related to the surf side collapse and uh and the legislation that's come out of it, the what we're experiencing on the insurance.
Side.
This is not a time when I'm when I'm in favor of doing that.
What I'm saying is let's let's tighten up in areas that don't.
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