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The mayor and the City Council need to let the people decide whether they want to fund city services or to further cut public safety. Management's short-sighted, conservative philosophy prevented it from putting a half-cent cent Public Safety Restoration Tax on the November 2012 ballot.
The city should now put the tax measure on the November 2014 ballot (when the most people will vote). In the interim, the city should work with all of the employee groups who have offered benefit reductions that the city has declined to accept and borrow from internal funds to maintain services.
Howard K. Watkins
Fresno
