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Council approves police classification adjustments to formalize downtown outreach unit supervision
Summary
Council approved an adjustment to the police civil-service classification plan that formally places newly funded homeless outreach officers and other downtown assignments under a designated sergeant; the change restores authorized positions to fiscal‑year 2024 civil‑service counts.
The City Council on April 9 approved an adjustment to the Tyler Police Department civil-service classification plan to align new homeless outreach positions and downtown assignments under a supervisory sergeant.
Chief (Tyler Police Department) said the department had added two homeless outreach officers and two officers assigned to downtown through COPS grant funding. The classification adjustment will identify a sergeant (Chuck Boyce, as named by staff) to supervise those officers; Boyce also teaches crisis-intervention training.
Staff described the change as an administrative alignment: one earlier temporary position authorized in October will be returned to the department’s normal authorized civil‑service headcount for fiscal year 2024. The council approved the adjustment on a voice vote after a motion and second; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.
No changes were reported for fire-department staffing in this action. The council discussion included brief remarks of support and no substantive conditions or amendments were recorded.
