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Michael2012, study those factual numbers I posted comparing the city budget allocation from ten years ago to today. Then consider that since 2007 the local property tax dollars to the city has grown from $63,927,230 to $99,568,368 in the 2014 budget, for a 55.7 percent increase. School allocation in 2007 was $113,125,355. Today its $118,644,632, for a 4.8 percent increase.

That means practically 100% of the local property tax increases over the last 7 years has gone to the city budget.

Wouldn't you think that if the public safety, DPW, and Social Services budget would at least remain at the same level of the overall city budget over ten years that more programs and service could be offered to the citizens of Warwick?

For example for the Public Safety budget to remain at the same 35% of the budget in 2004, it should be budgeted at $44,2 million. That $5 million more then the current level. I gaurantee the Police and Fire department could provide more services and use the new equipment to perform their jobs.

The Social services budget is down 18% from ten yeras ago. If it was at the same percent of the budget from 10 years ago, it would be at $8.8 million. That's $2.2 million more. With those funds the youth programs that were eliminated and the other family service programs eliminated could still be offered.

Michael you are the type of guy that would tell a person with a few lumps in their body to ignore them since they are feeling fine with no apparant visability to any probelm. Years later when they start getting sick you would then recommend they go see a doctor. However by that time those lumps would have turned into cancerous tumors with painful consequences and the probability of curing them much less then if the symptoms were treated when discovered.

Warwick is that patient in the initial stages of cancer but you and the mayor and all the political leaders in this city don't want to recognize that problem. It's easier to proclaim it's not a "accurate portrait of the city’s condition" and let someone else worry about it in the future.

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