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Salinas police budget grows 6.5% to $64.4M; Measure G funds traffic, records, violent‑suppression units
Summary
Police service administrator Tanya Erickson told the advisory committee that the city's FY25‑26 general fund was about $184 million and the police general-fund budget was $64,431,730 (a 6.5% increase). She outlined Measure E and Measure G positions and said some grant-funded roles are being converted to permanent city-funded positions.
At the April 22 Police Community Advisory Committee meeting, police service administrator Tanya Erickson gave a high-level overview of the department's general-fund budget and how Measure E and Measure G funds are allocated.
Erickson said the adopted city general-fund budget for the current fiscal year was $184,000,000 and that the police department's general-fund budget was $64,431,730, a 6.5% increase compared with the prior year. She said the department shows 161 authorized sworn positions, of which four remain frozen; 157 positions are funded and there remain vacancies across sworn and civilian ranks.
She described…
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