Law Enforcement gets pushed on hold. Are we left in good hands?
According to Sheriff Gus Dicesari, the county commissioners are letting the people of Polk down, “You’re putting the lives of the people in this county in jeopardy.” This debate hit a boiling point this Thursday when it was brought up that the county commissioners are shorting the sheriff’s departments to save money. Polk County is given a $127 million dollar budget for the year 2011. Commission President Anne Chenn says, “The county ran short of money this year because of increased costs for health care and higher fuel costs.” On the other hand Commissioner Anita Shenuski, (siding with Sheriff Dicesari) disagrees saying Polk’s shortage issues are coming from migration. “We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work,” and “they take away jobs from decent people.” Chenn snaps back in the heated discussion claiming Shenuski is being a hypocrite.
Dicesari informs commissioners that he needs to replace eight police cruisers that have reached over 150,000 miles each. Anne Chenn responds that, “the county does not have the money to buy new police cruisers.” Chenn suggests to Diceasri’s deputies that they should not drive their cruisers home daily, and even that scenario will preserve mileage. As Sheriff Dicesari was voted against his request for additional money 5-2, the sheriff department will have to make do with what they got for the year.
Nice work, I'd like to mention making sure to use past tense though, like when you wrote "Chenn snaps back in the heated discussion claiming Shenuski is being a hypocrite."
ReplyDeleteNicole already said what I would have said, but I'd like to add that the center alignment makes this a little hard to read. Also I think mentioning the prison (in addition to the healthcare and gas prices) would add some perspective.
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