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GREENFIELD — City Council rejected a $1.35 million capital budget request for upgrades to the Police Station on High Street during its meeting Wednesday.The proposed upgrades and improvements included building a 3,600-square-foot, two-car garage; an...
My Turn: Writing a budget rooted in our priorities and catered to our needs This chart prepared by the Coalition for a Greenfield People's Budget shows the Greenfield Police Department press logs from April 2019 to June 2020, sorted by call type and based on data provided by GPD. For a more detailed breakdown of categories shown here, see the table at the bottom of the page at PeoplesBudgetGreenfield.com/campaign." CONTRIBUTED GRAPHIC Published: 4/14/2021 4:40:18 PM Mayor Wedegartner and Chief Haigh propose $5 million in upgrades to the Greenfield police station. In the article they ment...
Redirect community resources to improve people’s lives Published: 3/4/2021 4:41:42 PM We write to express our dissatisfaction with the Community Policing Forum held Feb. 23 by the city of Greenfield and streamed live on GCTV, and our frustration with the Recorder’s subsequent reporting on that event. We are residents who care deeply about our community and have serious concerns about the use of policing to deal with the fallout from poverty, homelessness, addiction and mental health crises in our town. Policing will not solve these problems. We question why our town continues funding ...