Public Safety Meeting.

The public safety met on Thursday night and voted on proposal #6 and passed as amended. It the vote was 6 to 2 with Council persons Adams and Oliver voting no. Adams said a referendum should be held to decide on who controlled our police department. (Did she think this when they first voted on the merger)?

Councilor Oliver was nice enough to bring the race factor into the picture saying he hope this did not violate the city code of giving preferences to minorities and females. He some what got rebuttal testimony from the public about the fact that race has nothing to do with our crime problem within this city.

The more that I find out about the working of politics as a whole the less I am impress with it. But what process do we have to depend on except the one we have? It seems that sugar coat everything we do or there might ruff the feathers of the other party.

The bottom line on this as amended it takes the control of public safety from Sheriff Anderson and puts it back under Safety director Scott Newman who works under the Mayor.