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<br />• <br />Minutes - Regular Meeting, March 4, 1981, Page 7 <br />• <br />Jacobs: What we are saying is the way this is drawn up by <br />publicly opposing the adoption of Civil Service Act <br />and urging the citizens to vote against it. We <br />can't see, we had a meeting last night, the Board <br />has been meeting regularly and we just can't under- <br />stand why the City doesn't print facts, come out <br />with some facts and let the citizens not be biased <br />from either side and decide for themselves instead <br />of being pushed by this Resolution, which we all know <br />there's a lot of people in this community that what- <br />ever the Council says, some of them say, I voted <br />them into office and they know what's good for the <br />community and instead of them checking into it or <br />asking us to speak and letting the citizens decide <br />on the facts. <br />Simons: You will notice I tabled my vote because I wanted <br />to get the facts. <br />Cline: Why didn't the Association come to the Council and <br />ask us to consider putting this on the ballot in- <br />stead of forcing us to do it with a petition? None <br />• of you came to us to say, "Would you consider Civil <br />Service for the Department and would. you consider <br />putting it on the ballot." You left us no choice <br />when you went out and got your petition. I'm not <br />saying we would or would not have done it but I <br />don't think the Department was being quite fair with <br />the Council at that time. <br />Jacobs: Do two wrongs make a right? I agree, we could have <br />come before the Council and there is a possibility <br />that the Council could have come in with this same <br />resolution and said, "No way." <br />Cline: O.K. but then you have the alternative to go to the <br />petition. We are aware you have that right anyway. <br />I think it would have been fruitless of the Council <br />to have denied the request, knowing you could do it <br />by petition. <br />Simons: I think Detective Butchee is trying to say something. <br />Cline: John, would you like to withdraw your motion and <br />table it for study until we can get this committee <br />to study. <br />Tomer- No, I don't think so, and I will tell you basically <br />• lin: why. Now, I think very highly of our police depart- <br />ment. I'm tremendously impressed with them. I hap- <br />pen to have two teen-aged sons who run the streets <br />of La Porte who share that same feeling and knowing <br />