BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to 'Comparing previous police budgets 'doesn't work this year',' published Jan. 28.
The proposed Barrie police budget, and Ward 9 Coun. Sergio Morales implying that comparing previous police budgets won’t work this year, says all you need to know about the disconnect between the police services board, certain city councillors and the taxpayers of Barrie.
Not only is there a disconnect, but also a sense of entitlement when it comes to police services at budget time.
Inflation has affected the majority of Barrie families and seniors. When they sit down to do their upcoming fiscal budgets, they don’t have the luxury of a rubber-stamped annual increase of wages or pensions; they have to make sacrifices and cut back on some budget items, something that is totally foreign to the police services board.
Thanks to politicians who don’t have the nerve to question or deal with bloated police budgets, this entitlement will continue.
Police services are a valued part of our community and all the community asks is for them to show some restraint, be fiscally responsible in these tough economic times and share the pain the rest of us are feeling.
Ken Robertson
Wasaga Beach
