The asset forfeiture fund also has been used to
fund police overtime and to provide $ 1.5 million for the East End emergency radio system, DA's spokesman Robert Clifford said.
Not exact matches
For example, Mangano wants to tack a new $ 105 fee onto all traffic and parking tickets to raise $ 64 million next year to
fund police department hires and cover rising officer salaries and
overtime.
He proposed eliminating all of the $ 13.5 million spent on
police overtime to
fund neighborhood initiatives.
To cover the nearly $ 18 million shortfall in budgeted
overtime costs, Naughton said
funds were moved from other parts of the
police department budget where there was a surplus.
The council well knows they are only symbolically cutting
funding from the
overtime lines of
police and fire.
Miner said she made arguments in private to councilors that cutting
overtime for firefighters would cost the city federal
funding and that
police overtime money couldn't simply be thrown at hiring new officers.
The most controversial amendments including those to the Land Bank
funding,
police and fire
overtime - are short sighted and counterproductive.