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Oct. 5, 2021 - Mayor proposes increasing police budget
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Seattle mayor proposes increasing police staffing in 2022 budget.
Mayor Jenny Durkan's final proposed budget is aided by new taxes, a recovering economy and mountains of federal relief.
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Oct. 5, 2021 - Mayor proposes increasing police budget
10/5/2021 | 1m 15sVideo has Closed Captions
Mayor Jenny Durkan's final proposed budget is aided by new taxes, a recovering economy and mountains of federal relief.
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Seattle mayor, Jenny Durkan, proposes to increase police staffing in her 2022 budget.
Durkan wants enough funding to hire 125 SPD officers for a projected net increase of 35 officers over attrition next year.
The proposal aims to stop the department's shrinking force, but it has the potential to be a dividing line between the mayor, council, and activists still calling for that money to be spent elsewhere.
The city's financial outlook is bolstered by new taxes, federal relief, and a recovering economy.
Durkan's proposed $7.1 billion budget would restore funding that was cut by the pandemic and allocate federal dollars towards affordable housing.
It would also transfer funds for fighting homelessness to a new county-led authority and spend the city council's jumpstart tax revenue collected from the city's largest businesses.
I'm Starla Sampaco.
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