DEPARTMENT BUDGET PRESENTATIONS

Transcript (~1 min @ 11:00)

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▶ 11:08 Speaker 6: Good evening, councilors. Most of you know me, I'm Chief Kevin Falvey. With me is my executive assistant office manager, Kim Upton, who does all the money and is the brains behind the organization. Thank you for having us. I know you got my memo. The Cliff Notes version of our budget for FY27 is it goes up about 5.9%, and 95.5 or so percent of that budget is salaries and wages, so our budget is pretty black and white, for lack of a better word. And most of the increases of the overall budget is due to the increase of salaries and wages per contractual obligations for our personnel, in addition to reinserting two patrol officer positions that were cut from last year's budget. So that's the main reason why the number has reached what it is. The other sort of 4% of our budget is all mostly licensing, computer software, memberships that we belong to. I'm more than happy to get into particulars on all of them, but we're talking about record management systems, a fingerprint machine, radio systems accreditation memberships that we have to belong to, and other various police memberships that we have to belong to, in essence. Those go up every year as costs go up in the industry. Pretty minimal, but that would account overall for why