Put the Money Where the Need Is
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After reading the story about Dr. Astrid Heger’s work in the county-USC Violence Intervention Program (Voices, June 7) I have to ask our Los Angeles County supervisors this question:
With your bloated salaries and perks, what can you and your overgrown staffs possibly be doing that justifies endangering the budgetary needs of the County-USC Violence Intervention Program?
Why should the director of this program have to spend so much of her time raising money and why should such a burgeoning program have to get by with a staff recruited five years ago to handle a caseload one-fifth of their present burden? How much have your own staffs increased in the past five years-and to what purpose?
This program, and those at Martin Luther King and Harbor-UCLA Hospitals to which Dr. Heger refers, are dealing daily, literally, with gut-level problems of the human condition. What have you accomplished? Another civic public relations moment, more political bombast?
Put the people’s money where the people’s needs are.
J. PATON MARSHALL
La Mirada
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