City Eyes $6M Public Safety Bond

From City Clerk Renata McLeod’s draft minutes of Coeur d’Alene City Council meeting Tuesday:

“(Coeur d’Alene city staff) is proposing to go to the voters on May 19, 2015 for a Public Safety General Obligation Bond.  The debt interest cost on these bonds would be less than 2%.  Mr. Tymesen clarified that the items proposed originally to be paid for with these funds has been modified to no longer include police vehicles based on legal opinion of the state code.  The City Administrator, Jim Hammond, has proposed an amendment at the state legislature to clearly include police in the term public safety.  However, the current code language does not include that, so staff has removed the police vehicles.   The debt approval is up to $6,000,000 but it does not mean that the City will spend that entire amount.” Motion passed unanimously. Full draft minutes here.

Question: Will you support a public safety bond to upgrade police & fire equipment?