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Public comments and council split over taxes and police staffing; officers describe overtime, low coverage
Summary
Residents and officers urged the council to add police officers to reduce overtime and improve response times; other residents urged restraint on tax increases. Council members called for more study and a phased hiring approach.
Residents, police family members and council members argued over whether to raise local taxes to add police officers after city staff described growing overtime and single-officer overnight shifts.
At the council meeting, City Manager Josh described patrol staffing shortfalls, saying officers “are just responding to the fires metaphorically and and physically” and that overtime has “been blowing up our overtime line item.” He told the council the city faces a sustained staffing shortage, with field-training rotations and academy attendance further reducing…
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