June 12, 2024 • 29 mins
It's budget season in Memphis like most places in the US so I'm doing a budget breakdown on what's been proposed, what the moral budget coalition has presented to the council, and how you can take action to hold these elected officials accountable. Be sure to follow me on Facebook and Instagram @TheLawAccordingtoAmber
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Hey guys, and welcome to theLaw the Amber. Every other mondays the
controversy with the mixture of in andliterally us the Law show look at the
law Amberg as well as Instagram member, what's those of y'all will go to
(00:32):
another other? So I thought itreally break down about what's happening right now.
Then the city so of course ourmembers and right around like we're in
the midst of it has a littleactually, so we have government in the
(00:56):
city of government so folks also thecounty. So that Budge budgeting us right
now to the killing said to mea little more all lace and so there's
a lot of very they was likenight a Monday ago and I was just
(01:18):
like, this is exactly a lotof them just talking to talk, suspending
the rules. So Henry Brits canmake men. You know, it's given
me. I like to hear myselfand I want to make up point even
living that men meaning just just talkto total. So so that's as frustrating.
(01:41):
But on the city side, Idon't want to say that. The
county side, that has happened aincrease. So the county mayor a budget
and in that budget it included removingpositions from the budget that had been vacant
and more than eighteen months and thenit flooded like fourteen off and iff who's
(02:07):
a idioot? You know you don'twant one on the about how it is
legally sue because because it's fun ofmy police. I don't know how you
can be the police who aren't apolice because they aren't aren't in those positions.
But you know, I'm sure itdoesn't doesn't make mandance because he just
(02:28):
wants to those us we're talking pointseven if it's's stupid and so for us
to not have a text increase fromthe county side, one of the biggest
fact was getting rid of those thosepositions. What has been happening from what
I the last year here is thatthere's been a lot of positions in the
sheriffs are different government departments, andthey may keep assigning budget team pay for
(02:54):
them, like making sure there's fundsare alailable. The folks aren't getting hired.
Thusicians so realistically meaning oh you know, all right, those because we're
not people, so then are tryingto those are the same things. But
I am I am interest see whatwould have happened if the sheriff is actually
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you about that. But but backto the city budget because that's why I
write host tt So our city mayorpresenting his that a seventy five office tax
increase, because he talked about howthere isn't enough revenue coming in, they're
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paying for service. There's a lotof lines happpening. One of the other
big things in that they had alot of COVID coming in but not not
really actually compare the amount amount ofmoney money receive for covivid federal government.
It's way and the cities around usthat have smaller quipulizations that they had about
(03:59):
of about we got got and alot of that has with our Congress Chrissman
seeing not really advocates it's kind ofbetter trash Congress Chrissman since he got really
but since he's been our congressmen area matter of federal running, we received
has gone down explentially, like overthirty percent because he's just not the congress
(04:23):
brand. I think I think it'sreally really been many people to concu versus
like actually apprecating someone's gonna really wordwork on behalf haands like do the job.
So because of that, because it'sa huge, like like amount of
money that were missing after our youngyou know, suggested that we were EDGs
(04:47):
by seven. He also that werelike tag tag in a twenty five twenty
five five sax tax tree, butwe were still still going up in the
whole by like twenty four more milliondollars dollars without texts. And so are
members you know, because about theway I got government and the city council
(05:11):
put together and then they may votevote on it, so they're taking an
account with the mayors, and thenthey also make their sites. So of
that budge amazing included like two percentrace for city word works, I totally
agree because most of them aren't makingany real money in my spread time time,
(05:34):
I like to like to be publicgoverments. And so if he goes
to the city website, actually rereadout out that people may make and these
people are making every thousands thousand dollarsregular those works words like in city Hall
like city child likeation work works artslike that, part party managers and stuff
(05:56):
like that like those social aren't makingany any any So I tell them Understu
ra there, but the majority ofabout used to go what are you thinking?
Is if you said, because that'swhat just go in the United States
because to keeping all my but butyeah, yeah, so the proposed three
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tillion dollars for the PROLA and whenyou looking at the city, but they
use a little art and the partactlooks crazy because literally over a third,
like literally seventy of the chart it'staken it by the same and then you
(06:39):
know about it and the fact thatthey don't have to do I've said community
meetings where they haven't had any communitymeetings and areas can come come to meeting
and saying like, hey, whatare going to get the youth service everything,
we're going to going to get sports, the parts baseball, when the
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schools gonna be open, Like,ask all these questions about things that you
want to do, and for mostof it he didn't have an answers.
He didn't have an answer about thebaseball thing, the pools, what's we
opened? But then they got laid. But you have had lots of answers
about value. And to me,the wotelal crime thing, it's not a
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beneficial for us, but that's that'shot, like a hot hot cares people
big talking about it. So that'sthe Georgia of the BLOD budget. And
then I'm a part of the MoreMuch Coalition, which is the coal of
different like nonprofits who actually want wantto focus with community members. I look
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at different research data, watch watchcouncils. We have to have a unity
council, which is actually a highs presenting the things that they want to
see in the budd Bay. SoI looked at all those things and we
went back that in two different lines. I didn't want to one for the
CD and a lot of the becausethat's where the Bothy Service Services supports sated
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and so so there was in myitem for six doll to health Health which
would allow to get you to getfree and then help help with with transit
theory Guinea Annual because when I wason the major transition change, I was
talking his port our youths of submediateyand we did leastation. The main thing
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that a lot of lines said theywanted more service. They wanted more and
more to like any but they alsodon't need to ride up there and they're
still the same things and like theirkids want to go to those things,
but they needed a ride. Andbecause me physics, I have to have
public transportation, like we're not apublic transit friendly and we have had a
transportation takes a very life time ona lot a lot of rooms. It's
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just not f or like you know, just going somewhere to where the street
street it's maybe like too far walkbusiness, but a tendan car ride or
something. So one because the hellget to their they wanted to get to
to because because the other like numberone and numeric, they talked about mental
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health health like they really had hada huge thing about how they really have
a lot of issues and they reallyreally want to for those and they don't
want to talk to police, teacheror the parents. They want to actually
talk to it. And I thinkthat's a lot of time. I like,
like we we say they know youdo have and also you know when
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avery things we're offer the like authorityor you're like a police officer, but
that's sound that there is and theymight not want and they don't want talk
to police. So I think it'simportant to don't listen to the thing that
they want to want it. Sothat was other things we post. Another
other thing post was an opportunity workwork which which you use currently existing space
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based like like community centers, libraries, other places where folks to go up
and do like hands on south fielding. This was particularly important because this has
a large arge amount of opportunity,which which are the just graduated high school.
They're not in college and they don'thave a job, job and they
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don't have the regular they just outhere chilling. They got lots of opportunity
unities that comportunity. And so thiswas allowed now to look at maybe a
trade program and provide out like problemsfor that doing learn to earn program which
would be like like more corporate partnershipswhere they don't work at categoration and they
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can they can learn to turn andreceived cost for that. And then there
was and I'm in there like likesof house like like quicking or we had
to stay like that. And wealso also an emergency because like like you
know you who are just kind ofcard now and maybe they had a car
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their parents the issues and they needto get a fixed. So we all
all host emergency not with a lota lot of money and just put a
little bit too like like you know, health health care there and and that's
asked was two million hours and Ithink I think it's for important because in
the Unity Council they made similar asthey expert better their community center hours so
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that people would go there. Theex for today, the com centers and
a library, especially around something likegame and technology, which is culture had
in hand hand because it literal intothose same things ride by and will who
learn about audio usual technology, maybemaybe they want to do that kind of
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like music and all, because youknow, they don't have business. The
music is the city. It's reallydeep deep arts and culture. It's all
flowing through the city and so solike like you, you probably want to
go in similar things what they do, and so we want to provide them
like like the of those things.So then we presented this to the city
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council and really the fact that theseare things in the city council has a
fort These are things that the mayorand the transition meetings and he's a three
a lot of and that there's adefinitely things that that you know he really
won't want. And then we asthe leadership in the community and the profits
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and the organizations have talked there twopeople who have said we we want this
right right of it only comes toa total three point dollar hours, which
is just you know, really reallynothing nothing when you consider that our police
get three hundred trillion. That's that'swhat the pos and that does include the
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actual pay raise race to because ourcity council approves during the impast sessions,
which are different unions have with thecity where union present the workers were,
like the city press, what theywould agree to to around like technology,
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that anything pretty much much they presentthose things and then they can't come to
an agreement then at a past becausethat's that's that's what they can't keeps.
So they're at an impass and thenthe city council has pass where they there
inside the city and from the differentununions and then they dey you know what
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approp proof And I had a listeningmuch of all them, but I want
what had happened, So I waswatching them. A lot of people who
were raising that deserves are salitation words. The folks who do a clean up
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around like picking up like like tires, school look on the side of the
road or like like just hazard stuff, who work like control all that they
should have made made moment they shouldn'tmade making money money, And I definitely
agree with that that I agree thateven though like not on one one that
that was one one of the folksas well where they wouldn't make the most
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one one one that country, especiallyyour care here like like so and you
know right now, like I getit, like they deserve to make a
little way, but given at leastmore money after you just gave gave them
a three percent race and in themidst of them killing you like black people,
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being somebody literally on camera, besomebody in the and then it was
I'm not gonna hold you so tosee you do that again, which I've
had to feel they wanted to doto me. Just you know, these
are like theficals. But I'm gonnaleave to the police and the police state
no matter if they're successful or not. You know, even though they are
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successful at low, they have havehorrible homicide because they extramet I think it
was like like like it was,I think it. They aren't in solving
the crime. They are, aren't, you know, your folks from committee,
that's not what you do. Allthey're learning Union is targeting porporal for
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PreTect your stops and giving you ticketsand you know, your folks, that's
pretty much. And so I definitelythink that the right because they sucks up
so they and then now the citywill go in bud budgeings. And also
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also interesting to watch my things.They're live on YouTube. They can go
to the type of the count cauntthat comes us up because when I can't
go in the meeting, the personsthe count county is not just watch line,
so you can watch. Then theygo through this process. So they
haven't voted on the budge budget.Yeah, yeah, they're getting getting closed
right right now they're doing in pastingand so right around work working with meeting
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and talk about one one no notag which I was in interesting because this
entire time they talk no one wantto talk about, like no one that
want to cloth with comments about nothave handing taxes. But the last countcouncil
meeting, three random black people fromthe age from Cross the group you know,
the co colorther than David Oaks camein with no no tagast signs and
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they made the comments I disn't agreeabout that. I'm the no tag tax
thing. I do think that youknow, people don't don't hire tack taxes,
and I do think that we canfind a way, you know,
taking money from the policelice. Butbecause they don't don't need all that all
that money and we find a awayto that, you know, you wouldn't
need to raise cases. I alsothink that the mayorship done something which was
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if they're very positions that have beenbuilt with mon months. Because the police
has lots of exsicians, they haveto have field with the and they still
have money right now now. SoI hope that as the city councils as
orensidering re forgetting around the region nowthat they think about that and they those
but the most most wortantly, Ihope that they actually fun fun the more
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because those are solutions to the problemsthat were happening and people need to know
and feel that folks care about aboutthem and my fun thing and putting in
business meaning you in our culture,you're showing you care about by them beyond
just because the only thing I relyon the internet and occasionally when I watch,
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I said, white watch, it'sthem complaining planning. You know there
so hard trash all they want todo in the ram and be a rapper
and contrits which is not not everylike And I also would want to be
a rare rap like like what's theproblem about that? But that's what they
need. They complained about about them, and so instead of that complaining all
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the time, you know, theytake some action and programming that gives you
real, real source sources that theythemselves that they won't want that. We
have heard her say they want Theirparents said that they want that. The
mayor he said, you know,let's let's let's go ahead and do it.
But to me it was like,I'm just like like hot talk.
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Even with when the city council meeting, you know, white wat the council
canmer She thought that this physic isa great idea and when she she looknt
get it and he's only three pointssince a million dollars. It's not a
lot. So she really wants tofind money. What was this And I
say what I mean, you're tryingto write it's the fund on line?
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She said no, And I saidthat's that's a problem. The issues that
we will say that's something good,that we needed it, but then we
won't actually do the work work,take take action to make sure that it's
fun funded. And it feels likeit's a lot a lot of talk.
It's a lot of you know,the same things that people want to want
to hear, even count kinds ofgreen real appreciate her brand bringing it back
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there there is some fun fund outthere thousand dollars that isn't the count count
right around that? Do you useword? I really her bringing that up
because a lot of times here folkssaying I want a fun thing to have,
even like what is the least amountof mon money when you needs this
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program running? We can't get somethingtoo And said, well, I think
that we should get to get sometred thousanousands, but if not, we
could be a will thousands. Andhe was like, okay, okay,
it's gonna work with finding the money. I think that's as people want to
hear. They want to want toactually work than them not just saying they
say saying that because I think Ithink we all know that our presentation was
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folks needs to hear here, andour presentation was was real, real censor
to crime and folks and folks whoas resources. That's what the world was,
Buddy, it is, but butactually comes here where our city councils
and the way that they then thebudget and someone has to write a write
a relationship fun items specifically within thebudget different things we're talk talking aboutbout and
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so someone would have to say,I'm going to write a write relationship fun
nunny thing and with the blood budget. So now that the budget meeting even
kind of happening, they put Juneeighteene, so next week week and I'm
really interested to see, like whathad happened, what what what the boat
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looks like like? And I thinkthat I mean one thing that living in
businesses email, counsels, a websiteand you can also come home to city
council need eating make it moment they'rereally talking about any world because these city
count can rivers definitely have to havefreshasure like that's what has happened. They
have to have to feel because becausethan that they want and we saw that
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that had business to get just rightuntil well we have healed eating little their
emails like may making the comments theyweren't really going to do doing anything because
they have wire. It is isso one thing I really notice being around
the budge across cross countries, they'reshowing the eating they're setting going to be
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the council count council talking about themlike hey you know what what are we
going to do, because I willtell you about them. I'm not doing
no none. The actual pridate thatthat will help health specific issues, and
we all know that's a part ofthe system of you know, like like
politics, government that you know theywill say what he said and they will
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make you a little points, buta lot of they don't take take.
They do have toure. They dohave to have to put pushed, and
I think that that's like like that'sa roll up most like as editors pay.
If I'm going to pay these,then I know my money is going
and I need to okay where itis going, And so I think that
it's pull up up and pressure themin that way way because they have to.
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They have to know, like hey, I'm being maild accounta Monimore here
and then I don't know the rightrank, I don't know the right way.
There is going to be an issuebecause my situation are hardhold account cantible
and the EULSEUS meeting. So alot of the city I really been hating
hanging too. Others the city well, because I've been really different. Research
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out after twenty twenty got done.They just don't fund those things. Things
a few years later later, andthat's that's what is happening, I feel
like because a lot a lot ofthem aren't the same in big ways,
but they're still like organized, butthey're small, so that's impactfl and so
they were comfortable doing trifying things likethese programs give them the majority of budget
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and look at when the crime doesn'thave them because they don't understand why it
has been giving all my so ithas to work, work even though it
doesn't that it doesn't you know,equate, but also name and they they
have a lot a lot of it. So I think that folks will really
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a little more information. I woulddon't get this the city website budget Mayor
and then I wedgets on there aswell, and I think that y'all should
read it because when you you're lookingat that and look at what money is
going, I think it's a greatodd Why we have you have the fact
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that our part parts are getting liketwenty four million dollar dollars the library system
it is twenty eight million dollar dollars, the main place where services provided,
where we have to have the nextNICK one one serve, the live library,
the social support resources we needed it. They're getting twenty dollars and then
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we get look at union and thelibraries provide all the services along one book
books along one with these a loanyou can check out out of ject charator
at the library. You check gota library check out juice computers. There
have all these resources there. Andyou know what they do in our city,
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they say, instead of going togive you more and more for things
that you need, we're gonna getmore money in the police. And what
money they're gonna go to Israel?Because I was wet where our lieutenant or
the crow wherever his title is,officer Crow, her work, the part
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apartment folks under him. They allwant want to confer last year year,
let's August. Actually Tony, theprevious cheese he went to his uel and
you know, worked with the ideaand learned tatics. Then they came over
here and got enterprises to do abig contract for like like more body were
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body cameras, virtual slide signals withapparently on your body camera, even though
I don't understand why you would needthat. Everybody is always always because that's
what's the least she said. Butwe all all know the least she should
life that may makes sense. Yeah, yes, that's depending on defending tanks
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because we have lots of those allgot fifteen. You know, they're basically
building any military with them, andthen the funding them and resources they need
large accounts. So I think thatit's some point we have side where is
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the the like breaking point we're goingto say we're not gonna moore. For
me, that was like sorry,the break point. But I think the
other public also to realize what isyour break point and what we're going to
do with you? And I whatyou did you do is coming into the
councils eighteen and if you aren't,you look at where the any any city
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is not going because anyone because Ifound several of them and saw how how
much I'm my money going to policeofficers travel is usual, or also how
how many partnerships they had. Wepro organization hate them to come to concrestants
because some of them didn't have topay for travel, would like different meals
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and things like that to go tothe concstants. And then they come back
and learn all those different skills,looking at different they want to have the
missing and use those those things furtherto the bail yell us because one other
thing that was in the budget,and it was a camera throughout the entire
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city because you know, olks thinkthat we should be like Atlanta, because
you know, you're hanging out withAtlanta and we should be somewhere that's going
to be, that's gonna be whatresults even though it doesn't it results issues
and the mayor we're also saying thesame friend. It was not a lot
of the man because it's not,but it's doing a lot of land,
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including posts and all those cameras inthe city. So I'm really interested to
see where that that goes because it'slooking like Atlantic's to me, but you
know whatever. So yeah, yeah, I definitely think that if you're not
in the city, if you're inthe South, always find out animation about
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where because I think the text showand that's why you know a lot of
lines for you, we should knowexaxactly which knows that, especially because that's
also tattoo too. So yeah,yeah, thank you for listening to another
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episode of Remember. I hope you'llenjoy Budget now and if you business it's
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Hey guys, and welcome to theLaw the Amber. Every other mondays the
controversy with the mixture of in andliterally us the Law show look at the
law Amberg as well as Instagram member, what's those of y'all will go to
(00:32):
another other? So I thought itreally break down about what's happening right now.
Then the city so of course ourmembers and right around like we're in
the midst of it has a littleactually, so we have government in the
(00:56):
city of government so folks also thecounty. So that Budge budgeting us right
now to the killing said to mea little more all lace and so there's
a lot of very they was likenight a Monday ago and I was just
(01:18):
like, this is exactly a lotof them just talking to talk, suspending
the rules. So Henry Brits canmake men. You know, it's given
me. I like to hear myselfand I want to make up point even
living that men meaning just just talkto total. So so that's as frustrating.
(01:41):
But on the city side, Idon't want to say that. The
county side, that has happened aincrease. So the county mayor a budget
and in that budget it included removingpositions from the budget that had been vacant
and more than eighteen months and thenit flooded like fourteen off and iff who's
(02:07):
a idioot? You know you don'twant one on the about how it is
legally sue because because it's fun ofmy police. I don't know how you
can be the police who aren't apolice because they aren't aren't in those positions.
But you know, I'm sure itdoesn't doesn't make mandance because he just
(02:28):
wants to those us we're talking pointseven if it's's stupid and so for us
to not have a text increase fromthe county side, one of the biggest
fact was getting rid of those thosepositions. What has been happening from what
I the last year here is thatthere's been a lot of positions in the
sheriffs are different government departments, andthey may keep assigning budget team pay for
(02:54):
them, like making sure there's fundsare alailable. The folks aren't getting hired.
Thusicians so realistically meaning oh you know, all right, those because we're
not people, so then are tryingto those are the same things. But
I am I am interest see whatwould have happened if the sheriff is actually
(03:16):
you about that. But but backto the city budget because that's why I
write host tt So our city mayorpresenting his that a seventy five office tax
increase, because he talked about howthere isn't enough revenue coming in, they're
(03:38):
paying for service. There's a lotof lines happpening. One of the other
big things in that they had alot of COVID coming in but not not
really actually compare the amount amount ofmoney money receive for covivid federal government.
It's way and the cities around usthat have smaller quipulizations that they had about
(03:59):
of about we got got and alot of that has with our Congress Chrissman
seeing not really advocates it's kind ofbetter trash Congress Chrissman since he got really
but since he's been our congressmen area matter of federal running, we received
has gone down explentially, like overthirty percent because he's just not the congress
(04:23):
brand. I think I think it'sreally really been many people to concu versus
like actually apprecating someone's gonna really wordwork on behalf haands like do the job.
So because of that, because it'sa huge, like like amount of
money that were missing after our youngyou know, suggested that we were EDGs
(04:47):
by seven. He also that werelike tag tag in a twenty five twenty
five five sax tax tree, butwe were still still going up in the
whole by like twenty four more milliondollars dollars without texts. And so are
members you know, because about theway I got government and the city council
(05:11):
put together and then they may votevote on it, so they're taking an
account with the mayors, and thenthey also make their sites. So of
that budge amazing included like two percentrace for city word works, I totally
agree because most of them aren't makingany real money in my spread time time,
(05:34):
I like to like to be publicgoverments. And so if he goes
to the city website, actually rereadout out that people may make and these
people are making every thousands thousand dollarsregular those works words like in city Hall
like city child likeation work works artslike that, part party managers and stuff
(05:56):
like that like those social aren't makingany any any So I tell them Understu
ra there, but the majority ofabout used to go what are you thinking?
Is if you said, because that'swhat just go in the United States
because to keeping all my but butyeah, yeah, so the proposed three
(06:19):
tillion dollars for the PROLA and whenyou looking at the city, but they
use a little art and the partactlooks crazy because literally over a third,
like literally seventy of the chart it'staken it by the same and then you
(06:39):
know about it and the fact thatthey don't have to do I've said community
meetings where they haven't had any communitymeetings and areas can come come to meeting
and saying like, hey, whatare going to get the youth service everything,
we're going to going to get sports, the parts baseball, when the
(07:00):
schools gonna be open, Like,ask all these questions about things that you
want to do, and for mostof it he didn't have an answers.
He didn't have an answer about thebaseball thing, the pools, what's we
opened? But then they got laid. But you have had lots of answers
about value. And to me,the wotelal crime thing, it's not a
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beneficial for us, but that's that'shot, like a hot hot cares people
big talking about it. So that'sthe Georgia of the BLOD budget. And
then I'm a part of the MoreMuch Coalition, which is the coal of
different like nonprofits who actually want wantto focus with community members. I look
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at different research data, watch watchcouncils. We have to have a unity
council, which is actually a highs presenting the things that they want to
see in the budd Bay. SoI looked at all those things and we
went back that in two different lines. I didn't want to one for the
CD and a lot of the becausethat's where the Bothy Service Services supports sated
(08:13):
and so so there was in myitem for six doll to health Health which
would allow to get you to getfree and then help help with with transit
theory Guinea Annual because when I wason the major transition change, I was
talking his port our youths of submediateyand we did leastation. The main thing
(08:35):
that a lot of lines said theywanted more service. They wanted more and
more to like any but they alsodon't need to ride up there and they're
still the same things and like theirkids want to go to those things,
but they needed a ride. Andbecause me physics, I have to have
public transportation, like we're not apublic transit friendly and we have had a
transportation takes a very life time ona lot a lot of rooms. It's
(08:58):
just not f or like you know, just going somewhere to where the street
street it's maybe like too far walkbusiness, but a tendan car ride or
something. So one because the hellget to their they wanted to get to
to because because the other like numberone and numeric, they talked about mental
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health health like they really had hada huge thing about how they really have
a lot of issues and they reallyreally want to for those and they don't
want to talk to police, teacheror the parents. They want to actually
talk to it. And I thinkthat's a lot of time. I like,
like we we say they know youdo have and also you know when
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avery things we're offer the like authorityor you're like a police officer, but
that's sound that there is and theymight not want and they don't want talk
to police. So I think it'simportant to don't listen to the thing that
they want to want it. Sothat was other things we post. Another
other thing post was an opportunity workwork which which you use currently existing space
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based like like community centers, libraries, other places where folks to go up
and do like hands on south fielding. This was particularly important because this has
a large arge amount of opportunity,which which are the just graduated high school.
They're not in college and they don'thave a job, job and they
(10:35):
don't have the regular they just outhere chilling. They got lots of opportunity
unities that comportunity. And so thiswas allowed now to look at maybe a
trade program and provide out like problemsfor that doing learn to earn program which
would be like like more corporate partnershipswhere they don't work at categoration and they
(10:56):
can they can learn to turn andreceived cost for that. And then there
was and I'm in there like likesof house like like quicking or we had
to stay like that. And wealso also an emergency because like like you
know you who are just kind ofcard now and maybe they had a car
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their parents the issues and they needto get a fixed. So we all
all host emergency not with a lota lot of money and just put a
little bit too like like you know, health health care there and and that's
asked was two million hours and Ithink I think it's for important because in
the Unity Council they made similar asthey expert better their community center hours so
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that people would go there. Theex for today, the com centers and
a library, especially around something likegame and technology, which is culture had
in hand hand because it literal intothose same things ride by and will who
learn about audio usual technology, maybemaybe they want to do that kind of
(12:07):
like music and all, because youknow, they don't have business. The
music is the city. It's reallydeep deep arts and culture. It's all
flowing through the city and so solike like you, you probably want to
go in similar things what they do, and so we want to provide them
like like the of those things.So then we presented this to the city
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council and really the fact that theseare things in the city council has a
fort These are things that the mayorand the transition meetings and he's a three
a lot of and that there's adefinitely things that that you know he really
won't want. And then we asthe leadership in the community and the profits
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and the organizations have talked there twopeople who have said we we want this
right right of it only comes toa total three point dollar hours, which
is just you know, really reallynothing nothing when you consider that our police
get three hundred trillion. That's that'swhat the pos and that does include the
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actual pay raise race to because ourcity council approves during the impast sessions,
which are different unions have with thecity where union present the workers were,
like the city press, what theywould agree to to around like technology,
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that anything pretty much much they presentthose things and then they can't come to
an agreement then at a past becausethat's that's that's what they can't keeps.
So they're at an impass and thenthe city council has pass where they there
inside the city and from the differentununions and then they dey you know what
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approp proof And I had a listeningmuch of all them, but I want
what had happened, So I waswatching them. A lot of people who
were raising that deserves are salitation words. The folks who do a clean up
(14:13):
around like picking up like like tires, school look on the side of the
road or like like just hazard stuff, who work like control all that they
should have made made moment they shouldn'tmade making money money, And I definitely
agree with that that I agree thateven though like not on one one that
that was one one of the folksas well where they wouldn't make the most
(14:35):
one one one that country, especiallyyour care here like like so and you
know right now, like I getit, like they deserve to make a
little way, but given at leastmore money after you just gave gave them
a three percent race and in themidst of them killing you like black people,
(14:56):
being somebody literally on camera, besomebody in the and then it was
I'm not gonna hold you so tosee you do that again, which I've
had to feel they wanted to doto me. Just you know, these
are like theficals. But I'm gonnaleave to the police and the police state
no matter if they're successful or not. You know, even though they are
(15:20):
successful at low, they have havehorrible homicide because they extramet I think it
was like like like it was,I think it. They aren't in solving
the crime. They are, aren't, you know, your folks from committee,
that's not what you do. Allthey're learning Union is targeting porporal for
(15:41):
PreTect your stops and giving you ticketsand you know, your folks, that's
pretty much. And so I definitelythink that the right because they sucks up
so they and then now the citywill go in bud budgeings. And also
(16:03):
also interesting to watch my things.They're live on YouTube. They can go
to the type of the count cauntthat comes us up because when I can't
go in the meeting, the personsthe count county is not just watch line,
so you can watch. Then theygo through this process. So they
haven't voted on the budge budget.Yeah, yeah, they're getting getting closed
right right now they're doing in pastingand so right around work working with meeting
(16:26):
and talk about one one no notag which I was in interesting because this
entire time they talk no one wantto talk about, like no one that
want to cloth with comments about nothave handing taxes. But the last countcouncil
meeting, three random black people fromthe age from Cross the group you know,
the co colorther than David Oaks camein with no no tagast signs and
(16:51):
they made the comments I disn't agreeabout that. I'm the no tag tax
thing. I do think that youknow, people don't don't hire tack taxes,
and I do think that we canfind a way, you know,
taking money from the policelice. Butbecause they don't don't need all that all
that money and we find a awayto that, you know, you wouldn't
need to raise cases. I alsothink that the mayorship done something which was
(17:14):
if they're very positions that have beenbuilt with mon months. Because the police
has lots of exsicians, they haveto have field with the and they still
have money right now now. SoI hope that as the city councils as
orensidering re forgetting around the region nowthat they think about that and they those
but the most most wortantly, Ihope that they actually fun fun the more
(17:38):
because those are solutions to the problemsthat were happening and people need to know
and feel that folks care about aboutthem and my fun thing and putting in
business meaning you in our culture,you're showing you care about by them beyond
just because the only thing I relyon the internet and occasionally when I watch,
(18:03):
I said, white watch, it'sthem complaining planning. You know there
so hard trash all they want todo in the ram and be a rapper
and contrits which is not not everylike And I also would want to be
a rare rap like like what's theproblem about that? But that's what they
need. They complained about about them, and so instead of that complaining all
(18:26):
the time, you know, theytake some action and programming that gives you
real, real source sources that theythemselves that they won't want that. We
have heard her say they want Theirparents said that they want that. The
mayor he said, you know,let's let's let's go ahead and do it.
But to me it was like,I'm just like like hot talk.
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Even with when the city council meeting, you know, white wat the council
canmer She thought that this physic isa great idea and when she she looknt
get it and he's only three pointssince a million dollars. It's not a
lot. So she really wants tofind money. What was this And I
say what I mean, you're tryingto write it's the fund on line?
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She said no, And I saidthat's that's a problem. The issues that
we will say that's something good,that we needed it, but then we
won't actually do the work work,take take action to make sure that it's
fun funded. And it feels likeit's a lot a lot of talk.
It's a lot of you know,the same things that people want to want
to hear, even count kinds ofgreen real appreciate her brand bringing it back
(19:33):
there there is some fun fund outthere thousand dollars that isn't the count count
right around that? Do you useword? I really her bringing that up
because a lot of times here folkssaying I want a fun thing to have,
even like what is the least amountof mon money when you needs this
(19:56):
program running? We can't get somethingtoo And said, well, I think
that we should get to get sometred thousanousands, but if not, we
could be a will thousands. Andhe was like, okay, okay,
it's gonna work with finding the money. I think that's as people want to
hear. They want to want toactually work than them not just saying they
say saying that because I think Ithink we all know that our presentation was
(20:17):
folks needs to hear here, andour presentation was was real, real censor
to crime and folks and folks whoas resources. That's what the world was,
Buddy, it is, but butactually comes here where our city councils
and the way that they then thebudget and someone has to write a write
a relationship fun items specifically within thebudget different things we're talk talking aboutbout and
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so someone would have to say,I'm going to write a write relationship fun
nunny thing and with the blood budget. So now that the budget meeting even
kind of happening, they put Juneeighteene, so next week week and I'm
really interested to see, like whathad happened, what what what the boat
(21:02):
looks like like? And I thinkthat I mean one thing that living in
businesses email, counsels, a websiteand you can also come home to city
council need eating make it moment they'rereally talking about any world because these city
count can rivers definitely have to havefreshasure like that's what has happened. They
have to have to feel because becausethan that they want and we saw that
(21:27):
that had business to get just rightuntil well we have healed eating little their
emails like may making the comments theyweren't really going to do doing anything because
they have wire. It is isso one thing I really notice being around
the budge across cross countries, they'reshowing the eating they're setting going to be
(21:52):
the council count council talking about themlike hey you know what what are we
going to do, because I willtell you about them. I'm not doing
no none. The actual pridate thatthat will help health specific issues, and
we all know that's a part ofthe system of you know, like like
politics, government that you know theywill say what he said and they will
(22:17):
make you a little points, buta lot of they don't take take.
They do have toure. They dohave to have to put pushed, and
I think that that's like like that'sa roll up most like as editors pay.
If I'm going to pay these,then I know my money is going
and I need to okay where itis going, And so I think that
it's pull up up and pressure themin that way way because they have to.
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They have to know, like hey, I'm being maild accounta Monimore here
and then I don't know the rightrank, I don't know the right way.
There is going to be an issuebecause my situation are hardhold account cantible
and the EULSEUS meeting. So alot of the city I really been hating
hanging too. Others the city well, because I've been really different. Research
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out after twenty twenty got done.They just don't fund those things. Things
a few years later later, andthat's that's what is happening, I feel
like because a lot a lot ofthem aren't the same in big ways,
but they're still like organized, butthey're small, so that's impactfl and so
they were comfortable doing trifying things likethese programs give them the majority of budget
(23:30):
and look at when the crime doesn'thave them because they don't understand why it
has been giving all my so ithas to work, work even though it
doesn't that it doesn't you know,equate, but also name and they they
have a lot a lot of it. So I think that folks will really
(23:51):
a little more information. I woulddon't get this the city website budget Mayor
and then I wedgets on there aswell, and I think that y'all should
read it because when you you're lookingat that and look at what money is
going, I think it's a greatodd Why we have you have the fact
(24:12):
that our part parts are getting liketwenty four million dollar dollars the library system
it is twenty eight million dollar dollars, the main place where services provided,
where we have to have the nextNICK one one serve, the live library,
the social support resources we needed it. They're getting twenty dollars and then
(24:34):
we get look at union and thelibraries provide all the services along one book
books along one with these a loanyou can check out out of ject charator
at the library. You check gota library check out juice computers. There
have all these resources there. Andyou know what they do in our city,
(24:57):
they say, instead of going togive you more and more for things
that you need, we're gonna getmore money in the police. And what
money they're gonna go to Israel?Because I was wet where our lieutenant or
the crow wherever his title is,officer Crow, her work, the part
(25:21):
apartment folks under him. They allwant want to confer last year year,
let's August. Actually Tony, theprevious cheese he went to his uel and
you know, worked with the ideaand learned tatics. Then they came over
here and got enterprises to do abig contract for like like more body were
(25:45):
body cameras, virtual slide signals withapparently on your body camera, even though
I don't understand why you would needthat. Everybody is always always because that's
what's the least she said. Butwe all all know the least she should
life that may makes sense. Yeah, yes, that's depending on defending tanks
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because we have lots of those allgot fifteen. You know, they're basically
building any military with them, andthen the funding them and resources they need
large accounts. So I think thatit's some point we have side where is
(26:29):
the the like breaking point we're goingto say we're not gonna moore. For
me, that was like sorry,the break point. But I think the
other public also to realize what isyour break point and what we're going to
do with you? And I whatyou did you do is coming into the
councils eighteen and if you aren't,you look at where the any any city
(26:53):
is not going because anyone because Ifound several of them and saw how how
much I'm my money going to policeofficers travel is usual, or also how
how many partnerships they had. Wepro organization hate them to come to concrestants
because some of them didn't have topay for travel, would like different meals
(27:14):
and things like that to go tothe concstants. And then they come back
and learn all those different skills,looking at different they want to have the
missing and use those those things furtherto the bail yell us because one other
thing that was in the budget,and it was a camera throughout the entire
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city because you know, olks thinkthat we should be like Atlanta, because
you know, you're hanging out withAtlanta and we should be somewhere that's going
to be, that's gonna be whatresults even though it doesn't it results issues
and the mayor we're also saying thesame friend. It was not a lot
of the man because it's not,but it's doing a lot of land,
(28:02):
including posts and all those cameras inthe city. So I'm really interested to
see where that that goes because it'slooking like Atlantic's to me, but you
know whatever. So yeah, yeah, I definitely think that if you're not
in the city, if you're inthe South, always find out animation about
(28:26):
where because I think the text showand that's why you know a lot of
lines for you, we should knowexaxactly which knows that, especially because that's
also tattoo too. So yeah,yeah, thank you for listening to another
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episode of Remember. I hope you'llenjoy Budget now and if you business it's
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