Victoria council refused a request to reconsider $1.7 million in proposed cuts to the police board’s 2023 budget.
Victoria council refused a request from the Victoria and Esquimalt Police Board to reconsider $1.7 million in proposed cuts to its 2023 budget.
Council had suggested the police budget could do without one of the three new frontline officers — a combined $425,000 line item — the department requested, a financial analyst at $85,000 a year, a police file archivist at $56,250, a records supervisor at $92,000 and a training specialist at $89,000.
The proposed cuts reflect a seven per cent trim to the police board’s draft budget of $69.5 million, which included a 9.6 per cent increase in costs driven largely by increased salaries. He wrote that while cuts would have an operational impact, the board would be willing to go along with some of the suggested cuts and defer those costs to 2024.
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