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Council signals support to accept Edgewater Park grants and considers 0.1% public-safety sales tax for indigent defense costs
Summary
City manager and finance staff told council the Edgewater Park grant package can move forward; council signaled support to accept grants and start design work. Members also discussed implementing the state's 0.1% criminal-justice sales-tax option to offset rising indigent defense costs required by recent state court decisions.
City Manager Russell and Deputy City Manager Todd Krause briefed the council Oct. 20 on a mid-biennial budget adjustment that would accept several grants and move Edgewater Park design work forward, while the council simultaneously discussed how to address rising indigent defense costs created by recent state and court actions.
Krause said the Edgewater Park project has total grant funding listed at $4,090,000 and requires a city contribution of approximately $3,479,000 as presented in the packet. He said the proposed 2026 budget…
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