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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> MS Donaldson indicates that we can go over the Big Change items tonight. </FONT></div>
<div><b><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> So this might be a very good meeting for the public to attend!</FONT></b></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> -Rob</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> P.S.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Thank you Vern and Dwight for keeping my dates and facts accurate.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Along that same line, here are a couple of other corrections...</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >"In RP, policing accounts for about 2/3 of total expenses."</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Actually, the police budget is 50% of the operating budget. </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The proposed Police budget is: 2,038,653, and the total operating budget is 4,070,555.</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Police cars account for about 43% of the capital budget expenditures.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> >"You ask why the taxes are going up. The answer is: road improvements."</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Road improvements are a big part of the increase, but they alone account for</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> less than half the total increase. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> If you totally remove taxes for road improvement expenditures you still </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> have a 15% increase in taxes. </FONT></div>
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