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Finance committee approves budget revision to let police use LESO surplus and insurance proceeds for equipment and two vehicles
Summary
Tuscaloosa City finance committee approved General Fund budget revision No. 12, authorizing the Tuscaloosa Police Department to use restricted LESO (military surplus) funds for equipment and insurance proceeds from wrecked vehicles to purchase two replacement vehicles.
Tuscaloosa City Council finance committee approved General Fund budget revision No. 12 authorizing the Tuscaloosa Police Department (TPD) to move restricted LESO (military surplus) funds into spendable line items and to use insurance proceeds to buy two vehicles.
The revision covers two parts, city staff told the committee: a LESO-funded allocation for small equipment and site improvements and $88,785 in insurance-proceeds funding to purchase two police vehicles. "Whenever we get military surplus items from the federal government, we are required to keep them on hand, use them, and if we auction them off for surplus amounts, we are then required to reutilize those surplus amounts back into law enforcement,"…
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