Is it time to put APD's police horses out to pasture? (Photo by David Brendan Hall) When it was first conceived last summer, the City-Community Reimagining Public Safety Task Force was expected to deliver its final report in March, the middle of the city's budget year. This would allow the panel's recommendations to be followed by amendments to this year's budget that would ideally add up to the $150 million or so that City Council, and particularly its left wing, wanted to reallocate from the Austin Police Department this year to show that it heard and felt the swelling pain and outrage of a city that had taken to the streets with unprecedented vigor to demand that Austin's relationship with its police force change