Prioritizing our Budget

By Jeff S. Harris

There are many projects to address

Restoring city services to pre-recession levels to assure public safety, staffing parks maintenance crews and funding deferred infrastructure repairs, adequately funding libraries and after school programs, eliminating mandatory fire department overtime through proper staffing levels, bringing back the Problem Oriented Policing program, completion of the Sacramento River Parkway Trail, a Community Center Theater rebuild, capital improvements like the completion and restoration of local community centers, creating a fund for the development of Regional Parks, expansion of light rail to the airport, bicycle safety lanes and barriers downtown, building transitional housing with supportive services to address homelessness, a public/private partnership to assure an Alhambra underpass to assure mitigation of McKinley Village traffic impacts, and riverfront development from Downtown to Garcia Bend. These investments will bring increases in productivity, improve the quality of life for our residents, and make the city more attractive to private investment and business.