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With all due respect to Jean Bouchard, her statement, "the condition of one plan shouldn’t be used to project the entire picture", is absolutely wrong. That's exactly what needs to be done in the city. And the best way for me to argue my assertion is by this analogy.

Let's say you have five credit cards. Four of the cards have a small balance on them but the last card has a huge balance many times that of the other cards. If you devise a plan to put more dollars toward paying down the last card it could cause you to short change the necessary payments to the other cards. Also how will diverting all these dollars toward that one card effect other ongoing expenses in the home budget. For example expenses for kids medical, saving for college, home repairs, the need for a new car, unforeseen emergencies. Do you just cut them or ignore when the water is pouring through the leak in the roof?

My point is you need to understand the total liabilities in the city and how much it will cost to fund all these plans in the short term and longer term 5, 10, 15 years from now. You also need to forecast future budgetary expenses for the things we need to operate the city and schools today and at least five years from now.

To simply put a plan together to fund the one credit card may look good on paper but when all things are considered it may not work.

The proper study can be performed to determine if this plan will work with everything considered. And if the administration and council can show based on reasonable assumptions that the police/fire I plan and all other expenditures can be met without taxing every property owner and business out of Warwick, I will be the first to publically say I was wrong.