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Residents urge parks and animal shelter funding as council weighs trade-offs with public-safety staffing
Summary
During public comment at the Sept. 8 Sunnyvale council meeting, residents and groups urged full funding for Jobson Park and an animal shelter; speakers and council members debated whether to pay for those projects with reserves, TERS funds, or a tax increase while also addressing firefighter and police pay and staffing gaps.
A steady stream of public commenters told the Sunnyvale Town Council on Sept. 8 to keep commitments to parks and to build an animal shelter while several speakers also urged higher pay and additional staff for police and firefighters.
Cindy Bernowski, identifying herself as a founder of Friends of Animals of Sunnyvale Texas, described volunteer fundraising and work supporting the town’s shelter operations, then praised interim police and town staff for recent shelter improvements. “We now have the police department in charge of our animal shelter … they walked into a hornet’s nest with our distemper outbreak and everything. But they’ve done a wonderful job of taking care of the…
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