City of Austin Budget Town Hall Meetings – Comment Cards Date # Comment 6/10/2009 1 Please get the police cadets going! We need more cops now – forget about updating the website and parking meters now. 6/10/2009 2 "I like to urge the city council to focus on keeping residents safe. Police, fire, EMS must be priorities. The rest is luxury." 6/10/2009 3 "Save Summer Youth Employment! You speak of being open, transparent but it is easy to see that transferring the program to Workforce Solutions with stimulus money will go away in a year or two. This is pulling the wool over our eyes! Keep SYE! It’s great for our kids!" 6/10/2009 4 "Reduce all police, fire, EMS salaries to equalize them to their peer cities in Texas and the Southwest." 6/10/2009 5 Continue having these meetings. Be sure to LISTEN and act on what the citizens have requested because we are managing their $$$. We need to make some tough choices but it’s worth it. We have it a lot better than many places on the planet. 6/10/2009 6 Produce a better way to inform the community on the process of this Town Hall meeting. I don’t think this meeting represents the whole community. 6/10/2009 7 This experience was excellent. The staff did a good job. The department heads have done an excellent job. Everyone at our table enjoyed the process and enjoyed the choices. Good luck and continue the good work. 6/10/2009 8 "I would have liked to see an option to ...