La Habra Heights and fire services

I spotted this on Whittier Daily News, with a couple of interesting comments to follow about the budget decisions made by Councilman Stan Carroll.

LA HABRA HEIGHTS Councilman Stan Carroll has been elected mayor, succeeding Brian Bergman. This is his second time as mayor.

Councilman Howard Vipperman was elected mayor pro tem.

Carroll said the council will face a number of issues in the next year.

"We need to select a permanent city manager," Carroll said. "We need to deal with fire protection service, including balancing the fiscal 2008-09 Fire Department budget."

The city also needs to find money to construct a new fire station as well as continue the discussion about protection for the east side of the city.

Here are what a couple of readers had to say:

Reader 1:

Mayor Carroll, was it not Council Person Tela Milsap and yourself who sit on the budget committee and approved the record 21 percent increase in the fire department budget in the first place? I sure do hope the city council does not plan on balancing the fire department budget mess by raising taxes and finance bond's on the good people of La Habra Heights?

We already pay record high prices for fuel, food and soon water. Now you want us to pay for your mistakes. We elected you to oversee our local government and provide for it's well being. Not to try to force your New City Hall plan down our throats at a cost now approaching $1,300,000. And with nothing to show for it but a contaminated piece of dirt.

How about the city go after the employees that are alleged of moving and hiding city funds for personal gain? The city has seen 4 employees resign in the past 5 months, does that not seem suspicious to anyone?

NO MORE NEW TAXES!

Reader 2:

2. Maybe if the City had not done away with their Resident Firefighters they would not be over budget? Seems simple and straightforward to me.