Maybe someone can sell me on the reasoning for keeping the city’s mounted patrol, because I just don’t see it.
Mounted Patrol
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Some Council members want to keep mounted patrol unit
There’s a last minute effort to save at least part of the Rochester Police Department’s mounted patrol unit. City Council President Lovely Warren, and Councilmembers Adam McFadden and Carolee Conklin have submitted legislation that would amend the city’s proposed 2013-2014 budget. The legislation creates a smaller patrol unit consisting of four officers and five horses. […]
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Citizen budget ideas include closing Durand beach, cutting Mounted Patrol
The suggestions made during the City of Rochester’s Voice of the Citizen budget meetings aren’t really surprising. It’s also not clear how these relatively small adjustments would help the city close its $28 million gap. City officials offered four opportunities — one in each quadrant — for the public to provide input on the upcoming […]
