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VOTING GUIDES TO NOV 3,
2009 ELECTION: TX House of Representatives' House Research Organization Focus Report Texas Legislative Council League of Women Voters Guide FW POLICE DEPARTMENT VIDEO ON THE CRIME CONTROL PREVENTION DISTRICT (CCPD) As you consider
your stance on the renewal of the Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD), please consider that all of the programs that
are currently being discussed and offered as a benefit to YOU such as the gang unit, Code Blue, COPS, graffiti, canine unit
and neighborhood police officers could be funded with HALF (1/4 cent) of the money currently going into the CCPD. Wouldn't
it be nice to have the other half of those available dollars for repairs to our neighborhood streets, keeping all libraries
open and all community centers functioning at 100% percent capacity?
Well, because the CCPD Board did not give us the option on the ballot, the only way that can happen is to defeat the CCPD on the ballot in November and then bring it back as a more efficient and productive CCPD in May of 2010.....funded with 1/4 cent of our available sales tax dollars, and then rededicate 1/4 cent for neighborhood streets, libraries and community centers. Consider it a "wake up call" election for the CCPD by voting against the CCPD this November...to be reborn anew in May of 2010. Also consider that the current term of the CCPD doesn't expire until May of 2010, and even then the district has reserve funds to function for quite some time after even if the district were not renewed in May. In order to get real crime reductions greater than the reported 35% we need creative thinking and much greater accountability and independence within the CCPD.....AND please, it would be most helpful to loose the words would, could, should, might and maybe.....all of these words lead us only to unproductive speculation at a time when we need real facts and figures, and those "facts and figures" need to come from a source NOT benefiting from the dollars being spent. The CCPD was never intended to be a permanent tax, if it was let's just renew it for 25 years and be done with it. NO.....we were promised that we would be able to use these available dollars for other things once the goals of the CCPD were accomplished, and from available reports that has happened. By May of 2010 the CCPD will have been in effect for 15 years, and will have spent over $600 MILLION of our tax dollars. If we are not the safest city in the country and the very best equipped police department by now, shouldn't we be discussing WHY we are not? Those discussions cannot happen by blindly renewing the district time, after time, after time. Respectfully submitted. Louis McBee |
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