[Mpls] Monneapolis Public Library

[Tim Bonham]

>How many police officers wouldn't have to be cut
>if that money was spent more wisely?

Money for Libraries is an entirely separate fund from general city money 
that pays for police.  You can't use money from one fund to pay bills in 
another fund (even assuming you could get the Library Board and the City 
Council to agree to that).

Especially when the money for this Library is additional taxes that the 
people voted on themselves, specifically to build the 
Library.  Misappropriating the money from that to something else would have 
the State Auditor hauling you into Court real quick.  To say nothing of 
what the voters would do to you at the next election!

I suppose you could argue that all the money comes from the same source, 
the taxpayers pockets.  And that it might have been wiser for the voters 
not to have chosen to invest in a new library.  (Perhaps if they had been 
able to foresee the future 6 years ago, they might not have done so.  But 
not being psychic, they did vote for this investment.  And we can't divert 
it to something else now.)

Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson