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Committee rejects substitute that would shift courthouse funds to preserve routes and purchase new park cameras
Summary
After hours of debate over trade-offs between courthouse capital funding, transit route preservation and park/public-safety cameras, the committee rejected the substitute amendment that would reallocate funds and postpone camera purchases pending policy clarity.
The Finance Committee spent extensive time debating a substitute amendment that would have reallocated modest capital dollars to preserve select transit runs and buy three new park cameras. Opponents warned the change risked jeopardizing state financing for the courthouse project; supporters pointed to students and seniors who rely on specific routes and neighborhood pleas for cameras in parks with recent gun violence.
Supervisor Ekblad described a…
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