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Auburn council workshop models deep budget cuts; chiefs warn of brownouts for fire, cuts to police and 911
Summary
A city manager exercise showed roughly $4.5 million in proportional reductions would force service reductions across departments; fire and EMS leaders warned of apparatus brownouts and longer ambulance response times, police said cutting the School Resource Officer and PACE unit would reduce prevention and investigative capacity, and 911 leaders warned overflow routing would delay emergency call handling.
At a March 30 workshop the City Manager ran a budget exercise that applied a roughly $4.5 million (proportional) reduction to current services — a scenario council members uniformly described as too deep after staff detailed likely operational impacts across departments.
The manager framed the exercise as proportional reductions tied to a council benchmark; staff showed line‑by‑line scenarios that would reach the target and explained consequential program cuts and staff reductions in each department.
Fire Chief said the proposed reduction would take one apparatus out of service 50% of the time, reduce preventive inspections and fire prevention programming, delay ambulance remounts, and lengthen EMS and fire response times. He warned longer response intervals reduce survival odds in cardiac…
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