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City Budget Town Hall Meeting Summary | March 4, 2025 <br />Appendix A: Town Hall Comments <br /> <br />Program/Service Reduction Comments Cost Saving <br />Police & Fire: Reduce <br />Special Enforcement And <br />Investigation Units <br />C1. How many human traffic cases in Pleasanton! Are <br />these units stopping crime? <br />$400,000 <br />Police & Fire: Reduce Or <br />Eliminate School Resource <br />Officers (SRO) <br />C1. School safety increased w/ SROs. $400,000 <br />Police & Fire: Reduce Or <br />Eliminate Alternative <br />Response Unit <br />C1. Prevents crime cost to cut not worth benefit $800,000 <br />Police & Fire: Reduce <br />Support For Non-Emergency <br />Calls <br />C1. That seems like a lot for a non-police officer to be <br />employed for non-emerg. calls ! <br />$150,000 <br />Police & Fire: Reduce <br />Funding For Police Special <br />Programs <br />C1. Does Pleasanton need SWAT! $350,000 <br />Police & Fire: Close 1 <br />Pleasanton FIre Station <br />C1. Not that many fires. The two are close together. <br />Vineyard + Benal <br />C2. How can you even consider closing a fire station <br />after the fires in LA. <br />$1,150,000 <br />General Comments - Police & Fire <br />- Buy some cameras for busy intersections. <br /> <br />Planning and Building: <br />Reduce plan checking, <br />long-range planning and <br />permitting consultant <br />contracts <br />$450,000 <br />Planning and Building: <br />Reduce in-person permit <br />counter service to 2.5 <br />days/week <br />C1. Require fewer permits; minimizes impact $150,000 <br />Planning and Building: <br />eliminate neighborhood traffic <br />calming program <br /> $150,000 <br />Planning and Building: <br />Eliminate sustainability <br />manager position <br />C1. Can sustainability managers be contracted out? <br />C2. Climate is an existential threat. Pushing off action <br />will cause irreparable harm to our kids. <br />$100,000 <br />© 2025 CivicMakers LLC www.civicmakers.com 13 <br />Page 38 of 348