240894ac2efc806aa1e80b17296ba510e264360a Austin city council prepares listens to final public comments on the budget today. That is why it’s more important for us to use some of the funds that the Austin Police Department is privileged to and spread them out to the other emergency services that will actually help empower the minority community.”Joell McNew, the president of Safehorns, a coalition of parents and community stakeholders that seeks to promote safety at the University of Texas at Austin, cited the shortage of first responders and 911 dispatchers during the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason against lowering the police budget.“How are you going to handle 911 calls, defunding public safety?” she said.Mayor Steve Adler pushed back on criticism that reallocating police funds is equivalent to defunding the police, addressing police officers to tell them their work is necessary to keep Austin communities safe.“Know that this council and I want to do everything that we can do to make sure that you are supported and that you are safe,” Adler said. “The number of officers that we have, we currently have 1,959 sworn personnel that provide patrol services, investigation services, command staff, internal affairs, airfare, helicopter – all those people are sworn personnel and that number would just have to be much, much smaller to get to $100 million.”Austin spends around a quarter of its operating budget on General Fund departments, such as APD. At a budget meeting last week, Police Chief Brian Manley said putting a hold on training new officers for an entire year would further cripple an understaffed department.“I do believe this really represents one of the greatest threats to the safety of our community,” Manley said last Tuesday, adding that doing so could bring the number of APD officers down to 2012 staffing levels.Council members have said they don’t want to train new officers while the department’s training materials are being reviewed; Whatever Council members vote on later this week, some have cautioned promising big change immediately.
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“If, on the other hand, we are removing that money to try to punish them, and we’re going to give them the same amount of work, they have the same number of calls to answer, the same number of crimes to deal with, then … there might be all sorts of consequences which none of us really want to have happen going on downstream.”AJC founder Chas Moore said the goal of the requested budget cut is to remove those police duties and give them to other departments.“When you look at other city budgets like the neighborhood housing budget, alternatives to public safety like mental health crisis response and things of that nature, they’re in comparison extremely underfunded compared to the police budget,” Moore said.

In Fiscal Year 2020, the largest chunk of this General Fund budget – 39.9 percent – was dedicated to the police department, giving APD about $434.4 million to work with.“Just to run a police department is a much more expensive endeavor than to, say, run an animal center,” Van Eenoo said. Hundreds began calling for reductions to the police budget in June, and the council typically approves a new budget by August or September.“I think we all agree we’re not transformatively changing the police department in two weeks for a budget that starts on October 1,” said Mayor Pro Tem Delia Garza at a budget meeting Thursday.
Among other things, it says that someone fleeing officers must pose an imminent threat before officers can shoot.Casar’s resolution also prohibits the use of weapons like rubber bullets, bean bag rounds, tear gas and pepper spray during protests.Police Chief Brian Manley conceded that the use of tear gas “is very controversial” but said deploying the chemical agent is a key tactic in SWAT situations.“We’re able to get them to come out and surrender to us [with tear gas],” he said. FY 2019-20 Proposed Budget . In the Spring, the City begins the annual budget preparation process which includes opportunities for resident participation and culminates with the adoption of a final budget in mid-September. Do your part by joining our subscribers in supporting our reporters' work.A consultant’s report recommends the city move to create an economic development corporation modeled after existing bodies in New York City, Philadelphia and Atlanta to allow for fast and flexible development deals around the city.The report from QBL Partners presents…After approving an interlocal agreement with the Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority to create an Austin Transit Partnership – the local government corporation that would guide administrative, financial and some technical components of Project Connect – City Council posted a draft ordinance…Enter a search term below to search the Austin Monitor.For better, more complete coverage of the City of Austin and the region,

City Council members are proposing cuts to the Austin Police Department budget totaling roughly $149 million, or 34 percent of the department’s current budget. 13, 2020 Activists, progressives, and self avowed socialists are all championing the local efforts to defund APD by at least $100-million, with some even going as far as demanding 50% of the police budget be slashed and sent to other social needs.

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