What is the ballot measure?
Voters will be asked whether the Tucson City Charter should be amended to prescribe specific mandatory minimum staffing levels for police officers and mandatory minimum response times for the Tucson Fire Department including minimum firefighter staffing levels to achieve these response times. These unfunded mandates would have to be met by the City of Tucson within five fiscal years with prescribed minimum yearly increases.
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Frequently Asked Questions
June 26 memo to Mayor and Council
July 6 memo to Pima County Board of Supervisors
August 27 memo to Deputy City Manager
Learn the Real Truth Behind Prop. 200 – Sept. 14
Prop 200 – Know the facts! Vote No
Public Forum on the November 3rd ballot Proposition 200
Hear what City Manager Mike Letcher, County Administrator Chuck Huckleberry, Pima Council on Aging, Marion Lupo and the Hon. George Miller have to say about it.
Get the answers to your questions:
Who is sposoring the ballot initiative and why?
What would it cost the city?
How would it affect the city budget?
How would this initiative be paid for?
Randolph Clubhouse, Copper Room.
600 S. Alvernon Way
Monday, September 14th.
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Casa Maria,
The Primavera Foundation
and Perimeter Bicycling/Tour of Tucson
More Info: Joy Wilson 620-6067
Push for more firefighters is based on obsolete code
Vincent Baker, in an oped for the Arizona Daily Star, writes, “Proposition 200 has the stated and noble goal of getting the Tucson Fire Department to emergencies more quickly. Its effect would really be confusion and possible legal action.”
Read the rest of the editorial here.
Hi, I’m Jim Click!
Would you buy a car from him now?
One of those benefiting was Jim Click, with his slew of dealerships in Arizona, especially in Tucson and how does thank the government, by bankrupting its local subsidiaries, in this case, the Tucson City Government as well as the Pima County Government.
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Been Bugged By A Phone Call?
So recently, have you been bugged with a phone call coming perhaps, during the dinner hour, about the police and not from the Fraternal Order of Police trying to sell something, despite you being on the do not call list?!
More Moolah for Carol Zimmerman!
The latest campaign finance report is out and filed with the Tucson City Clerk’s office and the Public Safety First Initiative is raking in the dough, to the tune of $197,393.
Dear readers, some citizens, sort of, have actually given donations, ranging from $1 – $50, and their occupations, bankers, realtors, loan officers and loan brokers, those nefarious types who got this country in the financial trouble it is in now!!!
From the last update on this subject from a couple of weeks ago, another $12,000 has gone into the pocket of Carol Zimmerman with Zimmerman and Association for her “services,” bringing her haul to $80,677.13.
More to follow …
SAHBA’s Business Sense?
Spending money while going under themselves? According to the Arizona Daily Star, SAHBA, one of the primary supporters of the “public safety initiative” is laying off people and reducing its connections.
How does the Glendale, AZ Police Department Feel About This As Well?
From the Glendale, AZ Police Staffing Study – 2009, (Specifically Page 18):
“The IACP recognizes that ready-made, universally applicable patrol staffing standards do not exist. As has been stated, the ratio of police officers to population often has been used as a measure of staffing levels. Because of the many variables involved the use of ratios, such as officers-per-thousand in population, has been found to be inappropriate as a basis for staffing decisions and are not included in the IACP methodology.”
How Does the International Chief’s of Police Feel About Ratio Staffing?
From the IACP’s Patrol Staffing and Deployment Study brochure: Ratios, such as officers-per-thousand population, are totally inappropriate as a basis for staffing decisions. Accordingly, they have no place in the IACP methodology. Defining patrol staffing allocation and deployment requirements is a complex endeavor which requires consideration of an extensive series of factors and a sizable body of reliable, current data.
Yes they sure did!
So after the presentation about sustaining a viable police force, did Tucson’s Mayor and Council do something?
During the Study Session meeting of the Tucson Mayor and Council (April 18, 2006), Councilmember Shirley Scott moved and it was duly seconded to approve the Sustainability Plan principles and concepts as presented, with the knowledge that the plan will be reviewed annually as part of the budget process and be adjusted based on future Mayor and Council direction.
The vote was unanimous!!!
More to follow truthseekers!
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