Money for the late-night task force, operating in the city since 2010, is one-time funding on condition that in future years it will be included in the police operations budget.
A late-night police patrol program got a last-minute one-year reprieve Thursday when Victoria council voted to add $500,000 to its 2023 budget, bringing the property tax increase to approximately 6.3 per cent for this year.
The $220,000 had been cut from the city’s budget during budget talks last month, leading police chief Del Manak to say he was shocked such a proven program he deems essential to operations would lose its funding. Mayor Marianne Alto, who made it clear Thursday that unlike some of her council colleagues she knew exactly what she was doing when she initially voted to make the cut, said she reluctantly got on board with restoring the funding only because it will be part of the police budget in future years.
“The assertion that somehow this is pulling the rug out from underneath the police, I think is a bit disingenuous,” she said. “In addition, I fundamentally believe that, as we’ve been told repeatedly, this is absolutely an essential core service. This should absolutely be in the essential core budget of the police department.”
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