I don’t know why spending nearly half that amount to beautify the east end of Galesburg is more important than keeping four firefighters and two police officers on duty. There are supposedly funds available that can be drawn from different accounts to meet the budgetary demands and still keep our community as safe as possible (according to Jeffery Maher). Galesburg’s leaders want to draw more residents to our burg, but how are understaffed fire and police departments a draw for our city? The Register-Mail recently ran an article stating that Galesburg’s lack of enough retail clothing stores “is consistently noted in studies conducted by the city”, according to Economic Development Director, Cesar Suarez. The article stated that “the city approved a $28,320 loan to the Sandburg Mall to help with brokerage fees” to open a new clothing franchise. How is another apparel shop more important than six critical first responder security jobs? We’ll help build another pub to justify several more jobs here. Galesburg seems to have a fair amount of crime (and murders) for a city its size. I think more care should be taken to preserve the services crucial to our community.
Nov 14 2013
Do you support the city’s plan to cut $1.1 million in personnel from next year’s budget?
I don’t know why spending nearly half that amount to beautify the east end of Galesburg is more important than keeping four firefighters and two police officers on duty. There are supposedly funds available that can be drawn from different accounts to meet the budgetary demands and still keep our community as safe as possible (according to Jeffery Maher). Galesburg’s leaders want to draw more residents to our burg, but how are understaffed fire and police departments a draw for our city? The Register-Mail recently ran an article stating that Galesburg’s lack of enough retail clothing stores “is consistently noted in studies conducted by the city”, according to Economic Development Director, Cesar Suarez. The article stated that “the city approved a $28,320 loan to the Sandburg Mall to help with brokerage fees” to open a new clothing franchise. How is another apparel shop more important than six critical first responder security jobs? We’ll help build another pub to justify several more jobs here. Galesburg seems to have a fair amount of crime (and murders) for a city its size. I think more care should be taken to preserve the services crucial to our community.
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