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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 25, 2021
Contact: Olivia LaVecchia
(802) 734-0617
Burlington, VT – At tonight’s City Council meeting, the Council will consider a Public Safety Continuity Plan developed by the Administration. In a memo posted to the City Council agenda, Mayor Miro Weinberger urges the City Council to approve this plan.
“It is a fundamental job of City government to ensure public safety,” Mayor Weinberger writes in the memo. “When the public calls, we need to be able to respond with professional public safety employees who are trained for the full range of emergencies and needs that Burlington residents expect to be addressed. Now, however, the City Council has created a crisis in public safety that threatens the City’s continued ability to meet this fundamental responsibility… The package before you Monday night is my second attempt to propose a solution to this crisis. I respectfully urge you to approve it as a necessary step during this period of evaluation and assessment, and caution again that significant additional public safety service curtailments will happen soon if this proposal is not accepted... By joining with the administration and approving this proposal, you will create a path for providing the services we need and the Burlington public expects, while also trying new strategies and completing the analysis that we need in order to succeed at further transformation of the Police Department.”
Mayor Weinberger’s memo outlines the ways in which the City is currently facing a crisis in public safety:
The Administration’s Public Safety Continuity Plan would respond to this crisis by taking the following actions:
The full proposal, including Mayor Weinberger’s memo, is available on the City Council agenda.
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