Thumbs Down to City Councilman Joe Haggar for his proposal that municipal judges raise traffic fines to balance the city’s budget. He made that proposal when it appeared that municipal court fines would fall $1 million short of their projected 1981 total. Chief Municipal Judge Michael O’Neal so far has refused to implement Haggar’s request. “If; we’re going to make the traffic courts a vital part of the budget,] we’re not much better than Selma, Ala., or other cities who fi-i nance their budget through the radar gun,” O’Neal told the Times Herald. With Haggar’s proposal, the city, which lost $1.6 million in tax revenue by choosing not to tax older cars, asks the judges to pay their own salaries by implementing steeper fines.
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