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City staff propose using animal control reserves to restore CSO enforcement
Summary
City staff and alderpersons debated using roughly $60,000 in animal control reserve funds, plus $20,000 in levy dollars already budgeted, to keep three community service officer (CSO) positions that enforce animal licensing and respond to strays and held-for-cause animals.
City staff on Monday proposed allocating up to $60,000 from the animal control fund reserves, in addition to $20,000 already in the levy, to continue a three-officer community service officer (CSO) animal-control enforcement program.
The proposal matters because, staff said, the animal control fund is legally separate from the city’s levy and expenditure-restraint calculations; using the fund’s reserves would not affect the city’s levy limits or expenditure restraint. Finance staff and the police chief urged action to prevent a deep cut that could reduce enforcement, licensing and future fund balance.
Police Chief Barnes said the CSO program “is going great right now with 3 CSOs,” and…
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