Mesa budget cuts

Mesa is going to have to finally lay off some workers to help make ends meet on their budget. If you have thoughts, make sure to meet foe the budget meeting on Thursday at 7:30 a.m. Here are the cuts they are proposing:

-Reduce Saturday bus service from every 30 minutes to every hour to save $466,000

-Cut funds to homeless shelters and charitable groups by $40,000

-Cut $7.2 million from police in reduced overtime, less equipment, fewer responses to nonserious calls

-Eliminate 35 positions from Building Safety

-Eliminate 4 positions from Solid Waste and purchase less equipment

They have been threatening these types of cuts for some time now, and its about time that they start doing them. It will impact our quality of life, but when we don't have the money to do certain things, you have to do without. The government can't be everything to everyone.

People have said no to raising taxes, yet every article talks about how the problem would be much less if we had a property tax. Really, because I see problems in Gilbert and other cities, and last time I checked, they have property taxes.