Fine for a Fee

Published Aug. 18, 2009 at 2:43 p.m.

The Council's public safety and homeland security committee took a turn this morning as a budget committee.

The committee considered two proposals — a traffic court docket for unpaid court costs and an additional fines for home alarms — that would bolster the city's coffers.

"[Citizens] are given time to pay court costs and fines and for some reason they don't do this," said council chair Harold Collins. "We have millions of dollars in outstanding court costs."

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