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Griffith explained their decision, saying, The last thing you want to do is increase the tax rate, I mean it's the very last thing you want to do. The reason we did this, and we've talked about this for almost 2 years, is our plan for the police substations and community policing. We're already doing community policing, as you all know, and we need to be brutally honest about how great our city is, but we have big city crime issues, especially with property crime.

On the topic of downtown redevelopment, the councilman was asked about the plan to have the NTS building be rented out as an apartment, and if he was concerned with the idea of it being low income apartments. The councilman responded that he was not at all worried about it, and thought that it was an incredibly nice place.

Randy explained that the council raised it by once cent, saying, "We raised it a penny, and we originally intended to raise it two cents because some of the appraisals went up." He went on to say that most of the money will go towards the construction of the new police substations.

Lubbock City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Jeff Griffith on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin discussing the city government's move into Citizen's Tower, construction of a new parking facility at Citizen's Tower, the legacy of former Mayor Tom Martin, and more.

When asked if he thinks that ERCOT will be a reliable source of power for Lubbock, Randy said that power outages are always to be expected, especially when it gets hot, but that he does believe it will be a reliable source.

"Long term, the surface parking plan for Citizens Tower is not enough parking spaces. Now, could we proceed with the plan we have and have enough parking spaces when we open? Yes. But do we want to spend the money on that surface parking lot and then come back in 2 or 3 years and tear it back up? To me that doesn't make sense. So we are considering some type of parking structure. There have been no decisions made at this point." He went on to say, "We hope that we can make a decision on if we're going to do some type of parking structure by the end of this month."

"He's very excited about it. We're happy for him. He will definitely be missed. He's a great representative, great ambassador for the city of Lubbock, great ambassador for the police department. He's done an excellent job," Chadis said.

Steve said, "Lubbock Alert has worked well for us. It's a great way to communicate with citizens about a variety of events associated with the city of Lubbock, but most importantly is emergency events and weather related events."

"I think it's great that two West Texas cities are coming together to make that happen, because it's such a positive for all of West Texas, and I'm an Amarillo guy. I grew up in Amarillo, so I'm proud of the big A for making that happen," Randy said.

Randy spoke on the benefits of substations, saying, "They're going to be good looking stations. Aesthetically, they're going to be very pleasing. For you to be able to tell somebody that, by the way, this beautiful police substation is going to be within half a block or so from your home or your school, I think that makes smart marketing."