Calgarians pushing for police reform say they are “disheartened” with council’s decision to dip into rainy-day funds instead of shifting money from the local force’s budget toward community supports.
Earlier this month, Calgary police put forward a proposal to shift $8 million from their budget for the city’s new community safety investment framework, which is a measure to tackle gaps in crisis response.
But council decided on Thursday to pull $8 million from the fiscal stability reserve instead to fund the framework.
“The programming is what is important here, not where the money comes from,” said Davison on Saturday. “It really came down to ensuring a program is set up to be successful. Rather than dipping into base budgets of certain departments, let’s take one-time capital.”
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