The April 22 Explorer reports that a new proposal put forth by OVPD Chief Danny Sharp would cut $479K from the OV budget. (We discussed this in our April 14 post New Police Proposal Unveiled At Council Study Session)
Two important points are worth noting.
1) Whereas almost every other department cuts were in the 15-20% range, this $479K comes out to be approx. 1.7% of the overall budget. Also, keep in mind, OV police are approx. 40% of all town employees and approx. 50% of the total budget. One might ask, "Is this equitable?"
2) This was last week's news. See our post What Is Going On With This "11th Hour" Amended Study Session? to try and determine what is going on in Town Hall right now. Whatever it is----it may have some interesting repercussions.
http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2009/04/22/news/doc49ee479f042f9721530515.txt
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