City Manager be and is hereby requested to report back to the Council on how some, or all, of the $4.1 million dollar increase in the Police Department budget between FY20 and FY21 may be redirected towards measures that promote public health and safety in other departments

How it started

Jun 8, 2020 · Proposed by Councillors Sobrinho-Wheeler and Zondervan: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Jun 8, 2020 · Referred, unanimous

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Voted yes (9)

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

Jun 10, 2020 · Held by charter right the city's note: “CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNILLOR SOBRINHO-WHEELER IN COUNCIL JUNE 10, 2020”

Jun 15, 2020 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager. (unanimous)

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Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Patty Nolan
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler
Alanna Mallon
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
E. Denise Simmons
Timothy J. Toomey
Quinton Zondervan

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What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

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🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Jun 8, 2020

Public Comment (8)

8 written comments received (2020-06-08 – 2020-10-05). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.