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Sacramento County, CA November 4, 2014 Election
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Prioritizing our Budget

By Jeff S. Harris

Candidate for Council Member; City of Sacramento; Council District 3

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There are many projects to address
We have to balance our investment in projects with the return in revenues on those investments. The City of Sacramento has a very large debt load. The Arena project will not bring substantial revenue return for several years, so while the benefits may be stimulation of new development and an increase in property values downtown in the future, we still have to balance the budget. I personally feel that the city's investment in the Arena is too high, and it precludes investment in other areas that I would prioritize such as:

Restoring city services to pre-recession levels to assure public safety, staffing parks maintenance crews and funding deferred infrastructure repairs, adequately funding libraries and after school programs, eliminating mandatory fire department overtime through proper staffing levels, bringing back the Problem Oriented Policing program, completion of the Sacramento River Parkway Trail, a Community Center Theater rebuild, capital improvements like the completion and restoration of local community centers, creating a fund for the development of Regional Parks, expansion of light rail to the airport, bicycle safety lanes and barriers downtown, building transitional housing with supportive services to address homelessness, a public/private partnership to assure an Alhambra underpass to assure mitigation of McKinley Village traffic impacts, and riverfront development from Downtown to Garcia Bend. These investments will bring increases in productivity, improve the quality of life for our residents, and make the city more attractive to private investment and business.

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