City explains budget coding changes that make some line items look larger
Finance Director Aspen said the apparent jump in some department lines — including police 'other professional services' and legal services — largely reflects moving contracts and previously embedded legal costs into more specific budget categories, not new net spending increases.
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City staff told the council that some large line-item changes are the result of reclassification rather than new spending. Aspen said the Tooele County dispatch contract (about $157,000) was shifted from a police 'dues and fees' line into 'other professional services' so the contract is categorized more appropriately; the police department's other lines were adjusted accordingly.
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