Anyone making statements and distributing materials that imply that funds used for police upgrade funding were not properly dedicated town funds simply didn’t understand that the META Traffic funds that the Town of Mangham had on hand and those forthcoming were already dedicated for the public safety priorities of police funding.
None of the equipment purchases were frivolous or unnecessary and the salary amounts were spelled out in the META ticketing contract. And all invoices for police upgrade funding have been paid from META ticketing created funds.
Unfortunately, this misunderstanding of the dedicated use of META ticketing system funds has created a negative and unnecessary political issue. I don’t think anyone was being malicious or intending to put out disinformation. It was a matter of misunderstanding or maybe bad political advice based on misunderstanding.
