Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vav Inmar free december local us police losing officers to retirement Library system in poor shape stats by Bruce Owen the Winnipeg police service is fight ing its age As More police officers hit the 25year Mark and take chief Jack Swatski said yesterday More so than at any other the Force risks losing More experienced officers than it can take in a budget presentation to Council lors Swatski said 59 senior officers will retire this year and 55 Are expected to retire next the depart ment has a complement of he said with the High number of less experienced officers Are put into supervisory Posi we Are losing a lot of he thirty three recruits began training but Swatski said it will take about 11 months to get them properly there useless to us in our operational he compounding the problem is that police services across Canada Are also seeing a higher than usual retirement like the Winnipeg police there targeting experienced police officers from other jurisdictions to fill Competition for experienced police officers is very he told the Protection and Community services com Swatski said with retirements and ongoing budget the Force will continue to juggle manpower to focus on providing frontline Core ser the police operating budget increases from million this year to million in Over the past the department has had to pull officers off Community based policing initiatives and storefront operations so that they could Man Cruiser by David Obrien if knowledge is then Winnipeg is a judging by the poor condition of the Public Library compared to 32 other major Canad an Winnipeg has one of the poor est Public libraries in according to 1999 statistics from the Council of administrators of Large Urban Public libraries the City ranks below average in the amount of Money it spends per capita on Library circulation per card holdings per hours and even on such obscure criteria As the number of questions Library staff Field from Winnipeg 20 libraries Are so lightly staffed that some new materials gather dust in boxes for up to six months before they Are unrated and placed on the nearly six million items cd Are checked out making it one of the cites mos used in the critical category of expenditure per capita on Winnipeg ranks 22 out of 32 the City spends just per capita on new compared to an aver age of for the 32 cities and Winni Eggers dont use the Library system As often As people in other major cities on the statistics Sandy chairman of the win surplus gobbled up the bit got an Early Christmas present yesterday a budget sur plus councillors decided to spend on several onetime projects t for the Winnipeg fire paramedic service to buy new radio i to repair City streets with Asphalt i for recreation programs that Are part of the cites Effort to build safer communities and reduce i million for the heritage investment Reserve which covers the Cost of property tax credits extended to Compa Nies that renovate heritage i million for the housing rehabilitation part of the cites commit ment to spend million Over five years Nipes Public Library said the statistics reveal a disturbing were not offering a very Good prod Hopkins the size of the collections Hast kept were open fewer hours As a were slowly seeing activity fall the Library slide is related directly to inadequate he the City spends roughly million a year on including a million annual Grant from the but the numbers Haven changed significantly Over the getting engaged getting married see our great selection of rings of Sale Celias jewellery 404 Portage 9490715 tile warehouse Ceramic floor tile Doc from of 2tso m we custom Cut Ceramic tile 2334418 50 Archibald till 8 pm till 5 pm sat Antiques moderns same old just redesigned 266 Edmonton 9432734 Jain a lot is Cool pals supermarket prices effective 6 2000 cites Rye bread 50 Heinz Tomato soup 284 my honeycomb Holiday luncheon meat 340 g Christie vegetable thin 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prices Are per air transit holidays terms conditions not included departure transportation supplements and insure space is available at time of our advertising 1c reqi24544 any vacation package at the Bay travel and receive Vox com first Alert Prole Salona Security free including a monitored Moke Detector Lor 60 off the regular Price based on 3 year contract and monthly of limit one Oiler per Oiler valid Lor All travel bookings made by dec the to i Hill the Bay travel downtown 9822999 18009911919 closed on sunday Book your vacation package on your Bay card and receive 5 Back in Bay advantage dolls to use at the Bay or for future travel with the Bay on intercity i million for the cites economic development which supports special initiatives to attract key i for Boulevard tree planting the Money could see As Many As new Trees planted next depending on the size of tree i to support downtown Festi i to create an arts stabilization i in transit Grants for the world Congress heart conference in the City next the fiscal issues committee is the final authority on the first three projects the rest go to executive policy committee today for Canadian Union of Public employees local 500 official Bill Dumerlus asked councillors to consider restoring the Cut from the cites Library ser vices Par time budget last year to help halt its downward councillors agreed the extra Money could be found in this years budget sur plus of of which has been tentatively earmarked to Plant Boulevard Trees next a budget has to be driven by distinct Garth Steek River Heights i question planting Boule Vard Trees when you can enhance Library Hopkins said poor people suffer the most from underfunded libraries because they Are the ones who depend the most on particularly for Access to computers and the Jenny chairwoman of the Protection and Community services which is responsible for said there needs to be a Long term funding solution to the Library Harvey Smith said he doubted Council is prepared to make a commitment to an improved i go to the Library All the time and i never see any other councillors a former they dont use the so they dont have any idea what its like or How important it i dont know if any of them even the City plans to contribute million towards a new million Library Down but the onetime capital expenditure wont solve All the said a spokesman for the Winnipeg Library which has launched a Campaign to raise Money for the new Public the Protection and Community ser vices committee voted to reinstate for Par time Library but Smith said the measure is just a Stop Gap measure that Doest address the Lon term funding Many families Are left wondering what to please Call for your complimentary brochure on the Glen Eden memorial gardens cemetery funeral Home 4477 main Street West Paul 9828300 St Johns Yamaha music Centre Clavin ova digital piano do not pay until May during this 2 Day Sale cups from 1330 Portage j 8 v from 37 pm dec 9 from 10 am 1 pm free workshop Clavin ova your 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