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Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010 | 7:56 p.m.
The North Las Vegas City Council unanimously accepted a grant Wednesday night that will allow the city’s police department to rehire 16 police officers scheduled to be laid off Dec. 31.
The grant, from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, is for $5.3 million. Because the federal money is intended to add police officers to the force, not save them from cuts, the city will have to lay off the officers and rehire them.
The city announced a proposal Oct. 20 to cut 251 full-time positions, 27 of them police officer positions. The reason: This fiscal year — July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011 — the city must reduce its budget by about $10 million.
Before June 30, 2012, the city will have to cut about $35.1 million from its budget to keep it balanced.
NLV Police do a good job. Metro could learn a thing or two from them. I.E. stop killing people.
We all know there is NEVER something for nothing. In this case once the 5.3 million runs out, what then? Has our city officials agreed to continue on with the pay, benefits or just what is the strings. I am for all the protection we can get but I am afraid of anything that is called free, especially from our Federal Government. Remember "If IT SOUNDS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS, OR NEVER TRUST A SMILING DOG"
That's fraud I know someone will say no it's a loop hole but the end result is still deception!
Suppose a person picks up silver silverware from a hotel and tosses it in the garbage and later retrieves it and says look what I found lucky me.
Would that be prosecuted in the courts?
This is the very reason we should not have tax incentives for business that hire because they don't really hire new employee's they simply reclassify them and take the credit or in this instance the money.
waste of money
When these laid-off officers are re-hired, will the city have to treat them as new hires and have full and complete background checks, have to make them take refersher training, etc.? Will they lose all of the benefits that their previous service afforded them since they will have to be classified as new employees?
mred is right. It is not only a waste of money...it shows a lack of basic insight.
We don't need more donut shop patrols.
The National Guard should be patrolling the street pretty soon to quell riots.
THERE'S the new donut market base! LOL (I think)
Or Federal grant refills coffers drained by police action which drained more than 3 million dollars of taxpayer funds.
Great example the NLV city council is showing. So when firefighters play fast and loose with overtime rules we will know where they got the idea. When a cop takes a few liberties with a citizens civil rights, we can look to the city council for setting such a horrible example. If the city if NLV can't meet the grants requirements then don't accept it. Where is your character guys?