And whether the amount could be substantiated with a quotation.

It was approved on the fourth of December 2023 for eleven hundred dollars.

Seven weeks from the night of the roll call to a cheque.

Eleven weeks to a guitar in a case.

Not one morning.

Eleven weeks, a two-page form, a board meeting, a quotation from a shop, and a cheque drawn on a non-profit account with two signatures on it.

That is what it actually takes for a group of police officers to lawfully give a civilian child a guitar, and I have come to think that the eleven weeks is not the boring part of this story.