It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.
There is a specified time each day when, with a uniformed officer as an escort, the receipts are taken from buildings and safety engineering and taken down to the Treasurer's or tax office.
They want to come in, help out and be behind the scenes.
Running a zoo just doesn't make sense when you're talking about cutting police and fire and trash and everything else. Ideally, the zookeepers will go last because this is a phased process, and obviously we have to make sure the animals are taken care of.
What happened is we resubmitted the same proposal they voted on and we are encouraging a vote. We informed council that we're definitely encouraging a vote. And if there are any other changes, we are definitely open to making those changes as need be.
We have to boost our core services such as fire, police and trash collection. Operating a zoo is a business we can no longer be in.
We had to make the decision to close the zoo. That process will start tomorrow.
We can't afford it. We're going to look to get out of businesses it just doesn't make sense for us to be in.
