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MNPD says salary savings were used to cover contracts, overtime and shortfalls; department seeks budget relief
Summary
Metro Nashville Police Department officials told the working group that much of previously reported salary savings were needed to cover contractual increases, internal service fees and large overtime expenditures; the department said it will submit supplemental budget requests to address carryover shortfalls.
Metro Nashville Police Department officials briefed the Budget & Finance Human Resources Working Group on how the department used salary savings and why large operating shortfalls reappeared in non‑salary lines.
Captain Kelly Cantrell told the committee that the department’s salary and fringe budget is roughly 90% of its total allocation and that what remains for non‑salary operating expenses is therefore a fraction of the total. Cantrell described a pattern in which the…
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