I feel bad we can't afford to employ more police officers. We're really tapped out. I do believe that if our City Council sat down and looked really, really hard they could find you guys some more money by doing without other things that are not as important during these hard times. We, as citizens will help you guys out in any way we can. We are all in this together. Once our country has accountable and capable leadership that stops taxing us to death, we should begin to recover from this mess we find ourselves in. Of course we still have 4 more years of their policies to deal with, so unfortunately none of you will likely be coming back to work any time soon. Again, I feel badly about this. Elections have consequences.

Is it any secret that our economy has been on the downturn for several years, along with property values and taxes? It seems to me with all of our well paid elected officials, that someone could have some foresight that changes needed to be made before coming to the edge of the "cliff" so to speak. Here in the private sector we have had to forecast as to work load, spending, etc.

Is anyone surprised? Of course this was the ramifications of that millage not passing and we begin to wonder who in the heck thought of that ridiculous amount of time for this millage increase. Laying off is the easiest thing to do. A path of least resistance and a way of blaming the public for this injustice. How dare they allow an outside source review the spending habits of these departments.Once again the board feels their hands are clean by making these proclamations and boast, to themselves, of a job well done. One even has the audacity to say this is a "Good government" decision. The heads of these departments are all wet and should begin to answer questions at the public meetings instead of making mime impressions. Here's an idea! Have those responsible for this decision sit in the new Splash Park and auction off, to the highest bidder, the chance to throw the switch at the grand opening. I am sure there are allot of people willing to donate to this and sure to raise enough funds to keep some of these officers on the roads. To our officers, on behalf of the citizens, we apologize for the actions of your bosses.

Tuesday February 19th at 7pm, we will all have the oppurtunity to voice our concerns about this. I for one, will be there. This is absolute nonsense, cheapscape township residents, like an additional 100-300 dollars a year would really break anyone! The cheapscapes who voted it down, ill bet they will be the jerks whinning about how long it takes for the dept to respond to a call. Hope your all proud of yourselves to save a few bucks and now 14 decent people are out of a job, take your saved money and stuff it up your ass!

It is a sad day for our township. I hope the elected officials rethink putting a millage with a 5 or 10 year end date back on the ballot this year. We need our police. It is one of the vital necessities in our town. People pass millages for the DIA, SMART Bus, the zoo, and swimming pools, but they didn't back our own police department. I believe it would pass if it had a 5 or 10 year deadline. Hope they reconsider.

Am I to understand that this will not be placed back on the ballots? If not.....could this be a preamble to contracting with the sheriff's office? Maybe an intentional one at that.

How many schools are in chesterfield Twp? We need police patrol!!!!!

Issues at hand were that the Police Chief decided to put this on the ballot in perpetuity (Indefinite time). Now that the citizens saw through this, he wants to go and create a Special election to run this up the pole again. The only problem is that typically the only ones that vote at special elections are the people that have been handpicked by the group sponsoring the vote. In this case it would be the police department and whomever they could convince to vote in favor. As far as Sheila above, it is not a matter of cheapskates, but a matter of fiscal responsibility. This township has seen it's problems with Police Chiefs and Supervisors in the past. Nothing wrong with wanting to look at alternative options.