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Council approves $460,300 increase in FY2025 confiscated funds appropriations; vote 7-1
Summary
Council approved a budget transfer increasing FY2025 appropriations by $460,300 in state and federal confiscated funds; Representative Canales cast the lone no vote citing a moral objection to using confiscated funds.
The El Paso City Council approved a budget transfer Wednesday to increase FY2025 appropriations for state and federal confiscated funds by a total of $460,300.
Representative Piero moved the item and Representative Limon seconded. Representative Canales explained he would vote against the measure on principle: "I disagree with the concept of spending confiscated funds ... I do have a moral conflict with the way that municipalities spend confiscated funds. And so I plan, not to, not to support this item," he said. The scribe recorded the final roll call as 7 in favor, 1 opposed (Canales), and the motion carried.
Council did not modify the specific line-item expenditures during the discussion recorded at the meeting; the agenda described the transfer as increasing FY2025 confiscated funds and appropriations for a total of $460,300 in state and federal confiscated funds. The police chief was acknowledged for departmental work during the preceding discussion but no additional changes to the appropriation were made on the floor.
