The Victoria Police Board has rejected city council's request that it revise its budget proposal for the coming year.
Earlier this month, councillors asked city staff to develop a draft budget for the year that would cap property tax increases at the rate of inflation, which it calculated as 6.96 per cent.In a letter sent to Mayor Marianne Alto and councillors last week, police board finance committee chair Doug Crowder noted that the council's motion would limit this year's funding increase for the Victoria Police Department to $4,345,000.
When Vancouver attempted to reduce the requested increase to its police department budget in 2021, the departmentIn his letter, Crowder acknowledges the city council's right to choose not to approve items in the police budget, but warns that choosing which items to cut would be "a difficult decision for council to make independently," because "the impact of doing so may not be obvious.
"For the board to remove items would conflict with our legislative requirement to provide adequate and effective policing; therefore, the board will not preemptively make any adjustments," the letter reads. "Should council choose to pursue their right to remove budget line items, please accept the board’s offer to work together to identify areas within the budget that, if reduced, would have the least direct operational impact."
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