After I post my articles I go back and check them to be sure that the links work, the figures match, etc. I did that with this article and found that two links were not functioning. This sometimes happens with City websites. If you were in a real business and your website has these kinds of faults, you’d be out of business. But somehow in the public sector, broken links are a way of life. Anyhow, here is the way to find the information without getting the bad links -
The Laguna Hills Police study can be found by going to the Laguna Hills city website, going to the agenda section, going to the June 10, 2014 meeting, to item 6.1, and then clicking on the attachment.
The budget figures for Lake Forest for 2015-16 can be found by going to the Lake Forest website, going to the agenda section, going to June 16, 2015, going to item 16, clicking on the second pdf file in the right hand corner (which is called Attachment 1), and going to page 3.
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Unfortunately I am unable to go back into my original article and edit it so that some of you will experience the broken links before reading this. I apologize. When I checked these links prior to posting they all worked.
Generally speaking I think it’s important to document from whence we derive our information. Otherwise it’s a case of “he said, she said”. If we look at the source of the data, we hopefully can agree that these are the facts. You can then argue about whether or not this is the data you want to use. For example, I used the 2015-16 anticipated budget instead of the 2014-2015 because this was the budget that showed the giant jump in our Police budget. Because I did this for us, I did this for Irvine and Stanton too, not using the past data but using the forward projected data so that we had good comparisons and so that the cause of our concern, the dramatic increase in the Police budget, can be highlighted.
