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Committee narrows medical examiner cut after revised analyst estimate; accepts budget package with exception
Summary
City administrators warned that cuts to Medical Examiner staffing could jeopardize investigations and accreditation; the budget analyst reduced its recommended savings for the office to $82,858 (from an earlier $174,709) and the committee accepted the analyst package while carving out the medical‑examiner item for separate consideration.
The Budget & Finance Committee received competing recommendations June 24 on funding for the Medical Examiner's Office and voted to adopt the budget analyst's package with an exception for the medical‑examiner staffing item.
City Administrator Naomi Kelly told the committee the Medical Examiner is required by state law to investigate suspicious deaths and that recent turnover left the office short of key staff. She said the office lost three assistant medical examiners in the prior year, that vacancies have required the city to use temporary hires or mutual aid from other counties, and…
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