City council on Feb 11th

The city council will meet on Feb 11th to vote on proposal 6 that puts the public safety back under the office of the Mayor of Indianapolis.

As I followed Mayor Ballard campaign in 2007, one thing came to light. At every tax protest, debate or meeting that I attended Ballard stated that his number one issue was public safety and having a chain of command put back into our police department. One of his favorite statement at the time was “ask anyone in city government who is in charge of public safety and you will get five different answers to the question.”

It seems that Councilor Adams thinks it is now the time to have a referendum vote by the people of who should be in charge of the police department. My question is this to Ms. Adams. Why did the democratic lead council not give us the right to vote on this at the time of the consolidation? I look for this to come up in the discussion of this proposals.

This will be the time when our council can put party politics aside and come together for what the voters are for, the leadership of Mayor Greg Ballard. The citizens will be watching. One thing I want to point out here that many did not even notice. The city government has changed. If you notice that the place had been changed for the last public safety meeting? Meetings of this type is usually held in room 260 but Counselor Vaughn knew that there would be many people at the last meeting and that room 260 would be to small to hold those in attendance. They moved the meeting to the city council room so that everyone could get in and not to be locked out as the former administration seem to do.