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Subject:Fw: City Budget for 2023 - 2025
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There was an error in my e-mail regarding the insurrection that occurred at the US Capital Building. It happened in 2021,
not 2020.
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From: John Sutter <
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Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 07:42:38 AM PST
Subject: City Budget for 2023 - 2025
I saw an article in the New Times newspaper last week that was about the input given by special interest groups that the
city received at a very recent meeting regarding subject budget. I don't recall exactly what the article said, but the
proposed budget for a new police station was criticized by some of these special interest groups who were mostly art and
theater groups. I strongly support the city going forward with a new police station. Public safety should be of paramount
importance to the city, not the arts. Certainly some money needs to go to them, but public safety affects everyone! Public
safety is more important then ever because of what has happened recently in this country. I am speaking specifically of
the 2020 insurrection at the Capital Building, which clearly demonstrated what can happen when there is no police force
or an inadequate police force to respond to a mob of anarchists bent on destroying property and people. Hopefully that
will never happen again, but you never know. Another specific incident happened in our own back yard, i.e. the Black
Lives Matter riot. People's property (cars parked on the street) were damaged and the 101 freeway was blocked by these
rioters. In closing, let me say that art programs in a city are important, but if you won't attend these programs because you
are afraid for your own personal safety, then what good are they?
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