{"id":17891,"date":"2016-11-10T04:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2016-11-10T04:27:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T04:27:48","slug":"public-safety-streets-get-city-voters-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17891","title":{"rendered":"Public safety, streets get city voters&#8217; endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/13861145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17514\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/13861145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"13861145\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/13861145-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/13861145.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parks, ball fields, the Civic Center and administrative needs are &#8220;frills,&#8221; apparently, according to Amarillo voters.<\/p>\n<p>Public safety and street repair? Bring it on!<\/p>\n<p>This is a bit of a disappointment to me that only two of the seven measures on the city&#8217;s ballot passed on Tuesday. I considered all of them to be &#8220;quality of life&#8221; issues that needed voters&#8217; endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>City residents, though, apparently are continuing their crankiness about spending issues.<\/p>\n<p>They did approve the largest single measure among the propositions presented by City Hall: the $90 million street repair, rehabilitation and maintenance project. Also getting voters&#8217; approval is a $20 million project that seeks improvements in fire and police protection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/33662878\/only-2-of-7-local-propositions-gained-support\">http:\/\/www.newschannel10.com\/story\/33662878\/only-2-of-7-local-propositions-gained-support<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voters made some significant strides in seeking improvements in city services. I&#8217;m sorry to say they weren&#8217;t quite enough.<\/p>\n<p>It might be that City Hall has more public-relations work to do to assuage voters&#8217; apparent angst over the way its management is doing its job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parks, ball fields, the Civic Center and administrative needs are &#8220;frills,&#8221; apparently, according to Amarillo voters. Public safety and street repair? Bring it on! This is a bit of a disappointment to me that only two of the seven measures on the city&#8217;s ballot passed on Tuesday. I considered all of them to be &#8220;quality &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public safety, streets get city voters&#8217; endorsement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[288,290],"class_list":["post-17891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-amarillo-city-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17893,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17891\/revisions\/17893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}