about if that would be money well spent. abc 9 s bria bell tells us why local police say they need a little more help on the streets. bria: jenna, during this week s city council budget meeting, sioux city police chief doug young asked to add two additional positions to the department s traffic team. council members will now have to decide if there is room in the budget for more officers to be on payroll. officers are just getting pulled thinner and thinner and thinner, says sheehan. on wednesday, city council members deliberated how the city s budget will be spent. sioux city police chief doug young took the opportunity to request two more positions for the department s traffic unit, causing a divide amongst council members. officer sheehan says he supports the cheif because the current lack of officers is taking a toll on the boys in blue. there are alot of shifts that have to be back filled because they re short shifted and so they have to hire back and pay someone for
that, but from the same perspective, we have to make decisions based on the health of our priests and our future ministries, so we can actually reacout to those individuals in a more effective way thanan maybe wewere now. jenna:a: father lingle says for people whose church is closing, they will be able to have access to a mass 20 minutes away or less. changes could take affect as early as next summer. jenna: coming up at 10, hear more from father lingle about his parishioners concerns. and also why he feels these changes could revitalize his congregations.s. tim: the sioux city police department says they ve reverd a skimmer device from a local gas pump. the cubby s gas station on york street is where the skimmer was located by a technision. it has been removed but police are warning anyone who s used the pay at the pump feature recently at any gas station recently to be vigilantly in montioring credit card or bank statements for fraudulent activity. folks are reminin
their gender indentity. the senate education committee voted 4 to 2 on thursday to approve the measure and send it to the floor. democrats have criticized the measure as discriminatory. south dakota lawmakers have killed a bill that would have repealed south dakota s death penalty. the bill s main sponsor is republican senator arthur rusch of vermillion. on wednesday, the south dakota senate state affairs committee met to review the proposal. rush is a former judge who has prosecuted a death penalty case. rusch told the committee wednesday that he s seen first-hand how costly and hard it was on jurors and court personnel. the thing that i find so interesting is the parallel that we re in a republican state that s predominantly pro-life, said chelsea gilbertson of vermillion, south dakota. and so the second that you bring up the idea of the death penalty, people are no longer pro-life. they re willing to take away the sanctity of life because somebody committed a crime.