Mesa City Council: Lame Excuse or Stupid? Proactive/Reactive?

Don't know about you, dear reader, but Candace Cannistraro is looking pretty beat these days giving budget presentations Power-Point style after being in the hot seat again and again at Mesa City Council meetings. It's amazing that City Manager Chris Brady avoids the heat of getting into the spotlight, choosing to sit on the sidelines to see others doing his 'heavy lifting' he doesn't want to.   
Take the time to watch this: very few members of the public can be see in the streaming vid upload from Mesa Channel 11 to YouTube about an hour ago - it's been viewed by less than five people. 

Huh? Now the city is getting 'Proactive' with code compliance??? Where have they been all these years ignoring neglected buildings all along Main Street for so many years?
Frequently whoever plans these agendas throws a lot of gobbledeee-gook so your average John or Jane Doe get totally turned-off and bored - fortunately KJZZ got right on this last night: Oops! This was buried on pages 18-19!
Mesa Police Department Hired 6 Additional Employees To Facilitate Private Jail Contract
By  Jimmy Jenkins, Mariana Dale

Published: Monday, April 2, 2018 - 9:54pm

Updated: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 - 8:04am

In a presentation to the Mesa City Council on Monday evening, Mesa Budget Director Candace Cannistraro said the Mesa Police Department added six new positions in the 2017-18 fiscal year to facilitate its private jail contract with Core Civic.
“With the contract for the jail services, there was an increased workload in our holding facility that we found during the year,” Cannistraro said. “There were needs there and so we re-allocated some of the savings from the jail costs over into the detention area.”. . .
The budget request submitted to the council Monday shows that the Police Department has hired five full-time detention officers and one full-time administrative support assistant to “support the holding facility and to provide safe and effective process for intake, housing, and transport of arrestees.”

Blogger Note: Mayor John Giles said we need to be more transparent???
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