Council adopts budget amendment to transfer personnel and funds from Public Works to Police Department

The City Council voted to adopt ordinance calendar 35,441, which amends the 2026 operating budget to transfer funds and personnel services from the Department of Public Works to the Police Department.

Council members received the ordinance and an amendment that corrected the fund from which money would be transferred. Council President Morell put the ordinance and the amendment before the body; the amendment was described as a by-request correction to the fund source and was approved before the ordinance as amended was adopted by voice vote.

Why it matters: The amendment adjusts departmental budgets for 2026 and reassigns personnel and operating dollars to the Police Department. According to the clerk’s summary, the ordinance provides for transfers "for grounds transportation and otherwise to provide with respects thereto." Council approved both the initial receipt of the ordinance and subsequent votes to adopt the amendment and the ordinance as amended.

Attribution: The ordinance was introduced by Council Members Harris, Morell, Willard and McCarron by request and adopted after motions and vote procedures recorded in the transcript.