Unidentified Speaker said the city's public safety levy allowed the addition of several new officers and reinforced neighborhood safety.
"This year, the public safety levy allowed us to add several new officers, including a community outreach officer, 3 patrol officers, and a dedicated traffic safety officer," the Unidentified Speaker said. The speaker attributed a focus on traffic and speeding to more than 1,000 traffic stops, saying those efforts contributed to stronger neighborhood safety.
The speaker framed the staffing increases as a direct result of the levy and tied enforcement activity to neighborhood-level impacts in a city the speaker described as "only 8 square miles." No formal vote or ordinance text was provided in the transcript; the remarks described results of prior levy-funded staffing and enforcement activity rather than proposing new policy.
The transcript includes a separate line of garbled text that could not be resolved; that segment has been treated as a transcription error and is not used as evidence for policy or numeric claims in this article.