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Committee advances plan to add free police hours for special events
Summary
The Health and Public Safety Committee voted to forward Bill 78-25 to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation, increasing in-kind police coverage for special events from 40 to 48 hours to help smaller nonprofits; one member requested written legal responses to First Amendment concerns raised by a public speaker.
The Health and Public Safety Committee voted Jan. 12 to send Bill 78-25 to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation, proposing an increase in free public-safety overtime provided for permitted special events. City legal counsel Michael Schmidt told the committee the amendment would raise the ordinance’s in-kind service from 40 hours to 48 hours, an increase the police department requested to help smaller nonprofits and community events.
Schmidt said the current overtime rate for patrol-level officers is $77.15 per hour and offered an illustrative example: two officers for four…
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