How many police officers wouldn't have to be cut if that money was spent more wisely?
Money for Libraries is an entirely separate fund from general city money that pays for police. You can't use money from one fund to pay bills in another fund (even assuming you could get the Library Board and the City Council to agree to that).
Especially when the money for this Library is additional taxes that the people voted on themselves, specifically to build the Library. Misappropriating the money from that to something else would have the State Auditor hauling you into Court real quick. To say nothing of what the voters would do to you at the next election!
I suppose you could argue that all the money comes from the same source, the taxpayers pockets. And that it might have been wiser for the voters not to have chosen to invest in a new library. (Perhaps if they had been able to foresee the future 6 years ago, they might not have done so. But not being psychic, they did vote for this investment. And we can't divert it to something else now.)
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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