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Patti Milne - making a Whistle-Stop Tour
Marion
County seeks safety levy
 The
$56 million tax goes to voters in November.Marion County voters will have to decide this November whether they feel safe enough to avoid new taxes or vulnerable enough to want to pay more for public safety. The Board of Commissioners voted Wednesday to put a $56 million law enforcement tax measure on the Nov. 5 ballot. Commissioners Randy Franke and Mike Ryan voted for the levy. Commissioner Patti Milne did not attend the meeting, but has said she opposed the plan.
County
OKs new detention center
The juvenile facility will break ground in 2003.
The Marion
County Board of Commissioners gave the go-ahead Wednesday to break ground next
year on a 56-bed juvenile detention center.
Commissioner
Patti Milne, however, refused to go along with building a new center, saying
that she thought some sources of money identified to operate the facility were
unreliable.
In addition,
she said she doubted that a public-safety levy would be approved by voters in
November and worried that the county would continue to find itself with a
general fund deficit.
“I just want us to remember what the fiscal realities are,” Milne said. “I think we have an obligation to identify these funds up front.”
FULL STORY
LOCATED AT : http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=46007
"Yes, I support a new juvenile facility. But, I could not support the one approved by Commissioners Randy Franke and Mike Ryan recently. There are two critical reasons."
From the Statesmanjournal
This
week’s winners and losers
July 19, 2002 Winner: The Marion County Board of Commissioners has seen the light and has adopted a stricter policy on employee use of cellular phones. Credit goes to Commissioner Patti Milne, who asked the state ethics commission to look at the county’s short-lived, weaker policy. |
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