Quote Originally Posted by PhiAlpha View Post
Agree with the policy though it’s a bit ironic that they’re giving the police one more thing to enforce after cutting their funding by 3% for no good reason other than virtue signaling...as evidenced by the fact that even after an 11 hour meeting and now several weeks...they still don’t know what they want to reallocate the funding to. Good leadership on the mask mandate...bad leadership for cutting funding to the police (who everyone thinks need better training, need to hire better and need more resources...all of which require funding) before having any idea where they were going to reallocate it and how much would be needed for those causes because it was the trendy thing to do. I would be willing to bet that the city council will have difficulty enforcing this after pointlessly torching the bridge with law enforcement.
Also, can we really call it a cut? The police were asking for just over a 3% increase in their budget for next year, and they only received an increase of .15% or so. More money next year is a cut?

Personally all for it if they redirect it to mental health services as discussed. That is much needed in the community.

But back to the facemasks, good on them for trying to slow the spread.