Provide direction on implementing recommended budget balancing proposal
In Plain English
The city faces a budget shortfall and staff has developed a proposal to balance it. City council needs to decide which cost-cutting measures or revenue increases to pursue. The specific recommendations and dollar amounts are not yet public.
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Votes
Freeze $1.1M of remaining positions; approve $170,000 in additional department level cut savings; approve postponement of citywide compensation study in amount of $200,000
Reduce 20% from the police department budget to be allocated to establish a community planning process and create a task force with $50,000 budget to carry out public safety visioning process for alternative models including mental health and youth programs
2 to 3
Approve budget proposal Option C
4 to 3
Freeze $1.1M of remaining positions and postpone the citywide compensation study in amount of $200,000
6 to 1
Increase the Office of Neighborhood Safety's (ONS) budget by $286,000 by freezing the lieutenant position in the police department and reallocating it to ONS to hire additional Change Agents
4 to 3
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