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Garland resident says revised SRO MOU bypassed council budget process, urges full reimbursement by school district
Summary
At the Sept. 30 Audit Committee meeting a Garland resident questioned whether a renegotiated School Resource Officer memorandum of understanding (MOU) went through the City Council budget process and urged the school district to pay more of the program cost.
Bob Duckworth, a Garland resident, told the City of Garland Audit Committee on Sept. 30 that a recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) covering the city’s School Resource Officer (SRO) program did not follow the discussion path he expected and may have bypassed the council’s budget process.
Duckworth said he attended the June 24 meeting where the committee discussed whether to audit the SRO program and that the consensus at that time was to include the SRO MOU in the budget process so the City Council could consider any amendments. “My understanding is this is going to go through the budget process and Chief is going to provide the details for the City…
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