The Cincinnati Enquirer today:
[Vice Mayor David Crowley] tried unsuccessfully to restore more than $291,000 for the bedbug inspection program, proposed by the health department to deal with rising requests for help, and more than $114,000 for a climate protection coordinator and an environmental compliance program.
We’ve discussed how Cincinnati had been trying to keep pace with the demand for bed bug inspections as the number of bed bug complaints doubled in 2008 compared to 2007. The bed bug inspection program budget had included $100,000 intended for criminal enforcement of bed bug violations—remember that Cincinnati classified bed bugs as vermin, making the harboring of them a misdemeanor.
In Hamilton County the budget is not yet final, but shortfalls are dangerously worse.
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