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Budget shifts costs into police internal-service fund; aldermen press for clarity as state retains policing authority
Summary
The FY26 proposal moves $16.4 million of support-service costs into an internal service fund billed to the police department; aldermen asked how the change and state policing arrangements affect city obligations for pay, pensions and operations.
Budget Director Paul Payne told the Budget Committee that the FY26 proposal reclassifies certain support costs for police into a new internal service fund and allocates $16,400,000 to the police budget to reflect those charges.
Payne explained why: services that historically supported police ' facilities management, equipment services (fleet), the personnel portion that served police, and legal support ' were absorbed into city departments after local control and now are being tracked and charged back as an internal service allocation so that the police department's budget shows the full cost of its operations.
"That is the $16,400,000 that's the cost of those services that we moved out, for those 4 departments and incorporated…
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