SIMI VALLEY : City to Review Funds Earmarked for Police
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In its ongoing budget-balancing act, the Simi Valley City Council will look at the $12 million set aside for the Police Department for the coming year during a special meeting scheduled for 6 p.m. today.
The City Council has been winnowing a projected $900,000 deficit in the coming fiscal year’s budget of about $28 million.
In the past, the Police Department was able to use money and assets seized during drug arrests to augment its budget. But due to changes in the law and a reduction in the amount of money seized, the department must rely in greater part on the city’s general fund to pay for services, said Laura Herron, director of the city’s General Services Department.
Those changes will cost the city $500,000 this year, Herron said.
Today’s meeting will look at that cost and at the remaining money in the Forfeited Assets Fund, she said.
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