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Police chief outlines potential cuts to crossing guards, front desk and community services under 5% budget reduction
Summary
Fullerton Police Chief John Radis told the committee that a 5% reduction to the police departments general-fund budget would require eliminating programs including Operation Clean Streets, reducing crossing-guard coverage, and cutting up to 10 police service representatives, which he said would force closure of the front desk and materially increase response times.
Police Chief John Radis told the ad hoc committee that the Fullerton Police Departments operating budget is primarily general fund and that about 74% of the departments operating budget is salary and benefits (approximately $52 million).
Radis said the department currently is budgeted for about 196 full-time positions and that it is holding about 10 positions vacant as part of recent cost-containment. He described units such as the gang unit, special investigations, mounted unit and a pair of behavioral-health clinicians funded…
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