And again, I don t think it s unfair, because if you look at the 61 percent that goes to fire and police, the lion s share goes to police. There s been some criticism from some Council members about not communicating with them enough. Well, without mentioning names, we have Council members who are very good, very diligent, and they do their homework. But we also have other Council members who don t read the backup material they re given. There s an election.
Voters have the right to vote for whomever they wish.
So I m not going to try to influence any of the elections. The voters will make their decision. But some Council members who are lazy, just plain lazy, and they will not read their material, and they show up on Tuesday and they expect to be educated when they should have read over the weekend, as I do, all the information available to them. To be fair, that s not always available. For example, with the Electric Company negotiations, that information isn t available until executive session.