For Readers That Don't Know About Belle Isle Park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Isle_Park
I’ve tried my best since I started the garden and the collective
to stay out of politics. Today January 29, 2013 I have changed my mind. After the Detroit City Councils inability to
make a decision on the State of Michigan leasing Belle Isle Park, I have
decided to voice my opinion.
I think this decision is a no brainer!!! We as a city cannot
afford the up keep of this precious jewel. Not at this point and we haven’t been
able to for years. The band aid maintenance that the City Administration says
costs tax payers $8 million a year can be diverted to other things (Public Safety
For Instance and I’ll get to that later). Some of the citizens and our leaders
have this spirit of entitlement that doesn’t make sense to me. Our city has
been declining for decades, 3 to 5 depending on who you talk to. From causes
like white flight, redlining, etc. Or whatever other excuse you’d like to use
but the one constant is electing folks that have ulterior motives into office
to make decisions that don’t make PEOPLE SENSE!!!!!!! Common sense should tell
us that we need parks but if another entity can fund the upkeep of our major
park we should do it!!! Here’s the tie in to the public safety issue mentioned
above. I read an article yesterday in the Detroit News “Detroit Police Pass Up
Tech Upgrade “
This system could have saved officers a
lot of time.
Daddow cited a CLEMIS
efficiency study, submitted to the Department of Justice in 2010, that found
its services saved enough man-hours to equal 2,400 officers among the 100
departments in the consortium, which have 5,500 sworn officers.
"Applying the same benefits to Detroit
and its 2,700 officers would result in an effective improvement of 1,178
redeployed officers," Daddow said.
Now saving $8 mill a year from the up keep of
Belle Isle, could have paid for the system and still added more cops and fire
fighters and EMS.
I REST MY CASE!!!!!!!!!!
