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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Guess who else supports the safety plan?

Hamilton County’s Comprehensive Safety Plan has another supporter: the Cincinnati Business Committee, a organization made up of various business CEOs.

Committee chair Robert Castellini, who is also CEO of the Reds, said the county is in a "public safety crisis" with too little jail space, too many arrests, too high a recidivism rate, substandard detention facilities and disjointed treatment programs.

"Public safety is of the utmost importance to our community. A safe community provides a foundation for a healthy community and, therefore, is of the utmost importance to our community and to the Cincinnati Business Committee," he said.

Commissioners David Pepper and Todd Portune raised county sales tax May 30 to pay for the plan, which includes construction of a $198 million jail. Opponents have launched a referendum effort. Castellini noted the county will waste $8 million to $24 million if it has to wait until the November election to decide the issue. IT is spending $2 million a month on the current system and housing of overflow inmates in Butler County.


5 Comments:

at 9:45 PM, June 14, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why is this not a surprise? Uncle Bob can well afford the extra sales tax. To him, it's pennies.

What I cannot understand is why should Uncle Bob be so worried about the overcrowding at the jail & the criminals? He isn't negatively affected by the crime in this city.

His gate receipts at the ballpark could take a hit because of the crime, but he isn't affected personally. I'm sure Uncle Bob lives in opulent splendor, or as one strange, racist guy in a farmer's costume at the Commissioners Meeting called it, a gated community.

If Uncle Bob is so concerned about the jail & the crime plans, let him cough up the money. Heaven knows he should have enough clout to leverage those kinds of bucks.

 
at 10:42 PM, June 14, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

you mean the jail plan

 
at 11:02 PM, June 14, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

He should tell his buddies Bob Bedinghaus and Mike Brown to ask the Bengals to quit breaking so many laws. Maybe then our jail wouldn't be so crowded. Oh, waiit. Professional athletes don't have to go to jail when they break the law. In that case, maybe Bob Castellini should just shut the hell up.

 
at 11:28 AM, June 15, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think Castellini is already benefitting well enough from our County's Sales Taxes. We've given him a new stadium, paid for by us, and he still can't do anything good for the Reds.

Now Senor Castellini wants more of our Sales Tax dollars? That takes some nerve. If this Democratic Sales Tax Hike does stand, I hope they run the jail better than Castellini has run the Reds. Senor Bob needs to worry about his own problems.

 
at 9:07 AM, June 17, 2007 Anonymous Anonymous said...

What safety crisis?

While our Mayor plays in Kentucky all the time, eight people were shot last night.

He doesn't seem to care, so I guess the rest of us will just stay in the safe 'burbs.

 
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