The Seattle City Council’s Public Safety and Human Service Committee mulled a new substitute proposal in the long, policy-dense debate over the Seattle Police Department’s 2021 budget after overspending in the past year.
The issue stems from two previous actions by the council. In August 2020, the council passed a resolution that stated they would “not support any budget amendments to increase the SPD’s budget to offset overtime expenditures above the funds budgeted in 2020 or 2021.”
But when SPD presented a $5.4 million shortfall at the end of the year relating to separation pay, paid parental fee backfill and reimbursements for overtime activities for officers who worked at COVID-19
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