{"id":3933,"date":"2015-05-06T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T23:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/use-traffic-camera-money-to-restore-parks\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T15:10:38","slug":"use-traffic-camera-money-to-restore-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/use-traffic-camera-money-to-restore-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Use traffic camera money to restore parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>On page one of the May 1 edition of the Kent Reporter, there are stories about the city taking in $1 million from the school traffic cameras in one year and a story about city park facilities falling apart due to lack of funding.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Hmmm, seems like a problem and a solution right next to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Is there a valid reason some \u2013 if not all \u2013 of that traffic fine money can\u2019t go to the restoration of park facilities? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The city is looking for creative solutions to revenue issues, so here\u2019s one idea to consider: use the revenue generated by the traffic camera tickets to fund park restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><strong><em>\u2013 Bob Schutzner<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On page one of the May 1 edition of the Kent Reporter, there are stories about the city taking in $1 million from the school traffic cameras in one year and a story about city park facilities falling apart due to lack of funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}