Council Meeting February 10, 2015

You know I pay attention to how many people attend the meetings. This week it was about forty. We are making progress, but you know I won't be happy til every seat is full. Then, I won't be happy til they have to move the meetings to a larger venue due to capacity issues. We could make PD and Fire work a little harder on council nights! ;-)
There was 'No Reportable Action' regarding the 'City Attorneys Closed Session Reports'.  By the way, there never is any reportable action. This agenda item is one of those pointless formalities because we never know anything.
There was a very touching dedication to Buddy Riley, the Emergency Operations Coordinator, who recently passed away. You can tell he was loved, valued and respected and will be truly missed.
Communications from the public was informative. I would like to see more people express their concerns.
This contract issue with RSG keeps coming up. I do not understand why. Let's clean our city up and focus on resources to do that, as opposed to paying some company from Orange County, that I found out we used about 15 years ago, to do something our city employees should already be able to do.
Raver had an issue with the $30k for PD for a campaign to recruit laterals that live nearby and are commuting a distance to work for another department. I'm not sure what everyone thought it would cost to have an aggressive hiring campaign for PD during the 1st year of the Strategic Plan, but if we have to go into reserve a little to fund PD, so be it. No one will come to this city and really invest until it gets its act together. By that, I mean it needs to be safe.  Fire can sustain on what it has for a little longer. PD cannot. If you have no idea what you are looking at and think San Jacinto is safer than Hemet, you need to get out on the street level and see what is really happening. I dare you. HPD has been able to keep the turf war in San Jacinto for the most part, in San Jacinto.  However, it is a matter of time before that threshold is met. The time is running out.  At that point ladies and gentlemen, it will be out of anyone's control.