police officer. The grant, if fully funded, would amount to $116,000. This would fund the pay and benefits for a officer for two years. After the two years are up, we, the taxpayers of Whitestown would have to pay the officer's salary.
We are a small rural town of around 20,000 people We already have seven full time and 5 part time officers. Whitestown also has a sheriff department and state police available.
. At a time when we are looking to consolidate with the other villages, such as Yorkville, and New York Mills, do we really want to add to our compliment of police? If we consolidate, one would hope, we would eliminate some jobs to save tax money.
A grant is not manna from heaven, it is tax money just from another direction. Any way you
look at it, it eventually comes out of our pockets. This town can find more ways to spend money and not reduce our taxes.
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