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Berkeley City Council discusses mayor's budget recommendations


The Berkeley City Council Budget and Finance Committee discussed Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín’s proposed supplemental budget recommendations for the 2022 fiscal year Tuesday.
Arreguín, alongside Councilmembers Lori Droste and Kate Harrison, examined various expenditures, encompassing increased budgets for the Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, as well as funding climate action.
His budget recommendations included increasing BPD personnel funding by $2 million to account for costs such as pensions and healthcare benefits, according to Harrison. While BPD’s budget increased, the updated funding is still less than BPD’s total costs sustained during the 2021 fiscal year.
The proposed personnel expenditures will also fund data analysts within BPD, Harrison added. ....

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Berkeley mayor presents recommendations to city budget committee


Berkeley mayor presents recommendations to city budget committee
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Berkeley City Council’s Budget and Finance Committee met Monday to discuss Mayor Jesse Arreguín’s supplemental recommendations to the proposed budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
According to City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley, the committee has made many changes to different versions of the budget.
“We try to take into account all the community’s concerns, all of the community needs as much as possible,” Williams-Ridley said in the meeting. “Really pushing our economic platform to rejuvenate our economy here in the city and carving out space to address many of the labor issues that we have on our table here in the city of Berkeley.” ....

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