Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray bristled when a member of the Lancaster Township audience mentioned that the City had built into its police service bid a 10% profit margin. He insisted it wasn’t so.
The person wanted to make the point to the supervisors and audience that, in contrast, Manheim Township had no margin for profit and thus MT’s very low bid for police services was all the more in jeopardy.
NewsLanc is advised by a source believed to be reliable there was a 10% margin in the City’s bid, whether it was called profit or something else.
But more importantly, what do Gray and the officials at Manheim Township have against profits? Why would they be offering services to other municipalities unless the arrangements also benefit their own taxpayers?
