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Police Patrol through the years

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The later staffing plan lists 34 positions in each of 2023–2024, 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. These are planned positions, not verified filled jobs. Division profile and staffing source.

ExpenditureActual2019-2020Actual2020-2021Actual2021-2022Actual2022-2023Actual2023-2024Actual2024-2025
Personnel
1,098,7231,187,8791,123,8471,106,8441,350,4421,612,479
FICA80,16986,68082,80980,64797,768120,538
Group Life & Health Insurance185,718183,642195,858201,258207,315259,816
189,715200,459185,864171,617191,140326,195
Workers Compensation Insurance38,29122,93532,63027,99546,27152,494
Employee Education & Training9,79114,97325,04317,84415,37928,020
Disability Insurance4,0104,0604,0373,8884,4346,126
Deferred Compensation8,38310,8908,9969,5967,2859,703
Subtotal — Personnel1,614,8001,711,5181,659,0841,619,6891,920,0342,415,371
Operations
850001,0291,3001,419
9349109879459701,674
Telephone13,73510,94411,32411,52121,80024,422
6,0436,3622,3425,1098,64326,832
Travel8,3805,97910,13011,5119,06411,872
Clothing & Uniforms20,87314,22915,33625,27720,66421,409
34,5808,9779,93210,81615,56017,232
Other Operating Supplies9,50416,76717,59322,19717,05418,404
Gasoline & Diesel43,66943,32972,69566,85366,75563,620
16,95328,50418,32621,64620,05829,349
Fleet Management100,000130,000140,000150,000160,000205,000
12,95022,77152,025115,421108,845244,743
Liability Insurance35,18633,35738,29449,62169,67398,826
DAG Expenditures43800———
Subtotal — Operations304,095322,129388,984491,946520,386764,802
Capital
Fixed Assets114,244199,148123,12022,009199,875232,183
Subtotal — Capital114,244199,148123,12022,009199,875232,183
TOTAL POLICE PATROL2,033,1392,232,7952,171,1882,133,6442,640,2953,412,356
Latest budget — FY 2026-2027View the source budget while the comparison is being checked.

The line items extracted for this section do not yet match the printed totals. The original budget is available below.

Budget source · PDF page 69 · Budget source · PDF page 70 ·

What the records showRelated decisions, supporting records, and unanswered questions.

The grouped Salaries row increased from $1,350,442 in FY2023–24 to $1,612,479 in FY2024–25, a $262,037 increase. This row combines the salary accounts mapped in the table, including overtime and longevity; it is not regular pay alone.

2023-2024 actual source · page 68 · 2024-2025 actual source · page 69

The FY2025 financial report attributes higher spending partly to fewer vacant police positions and implementation of the police and fire compensation plan. This supports staffing and pay changes as context, but does not allocate their individual effects to this division. FY2025 financial highlights · page 18.

The retirement notes describe a frozen defined-benefit pension plan for employees hired before July 2010 and a separate 401(a) plan for later hires. Retirement costs therefore need to be examined by plan rather than interpreted as a direct measure of headcount. This does not identify the cause of this division’s increase. City retirement plan structure · page 82.

The FY2024–25 amendment schedule assigns a $138,000 increase to this department’s retirement account (01-0602-5144), changing its budget from $150,000 to $288,000. This is its share of the $629,000 General Fund retirement increase, not a separately verified actual payment. Department pension amendment allocation · page 119.

Still unanswered: Payroll and staffing records are needed to separate pay-rate, vacancy and overtime effects. The pension budget allocation is now identified; actual postings are needed to match the allocation to the retirement history.

About these figuresWhat is included and what changed between reports.

Patrol division (0602) only, not the entire Police Department. Accounting mappings do not establish unchanged staffing or duties.

Amounts are shown as reported, without adjusting for inflation. A dash (“—”) means the source shows a dash or does not list a value; it does not necessarily mean zero. Related accounts are grouped for comparison, with available detail under each row.

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Section reconciliation and differences
  • Personnel: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 1,619,690 earlier; 1,619,689 later. Grouped reporting alignment; FY2022-23 later total is $1 lower because Deferred Compensation differs. Salary and retirement splits are retained in detail.
  • Operations: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 491,945 earlier; 491,946 later. Grouped reporting alignment; FY2022-23 later total is $1 higher because Liability Insurance differs. This offsets Personnel only at the overall total.
  • Capital: Overlapping 2022–2023 amounts: 22,009 earlier; 22,009 later. FY2022-23 Fixed Assets agrees exactly.
How the years were matched
  • The 2022-2023 column now uses the complete later FY2025-26 account breakdown. Its detail agrees with the previously displayed total; the earlier source column is archived.
  • Each column is an ACTUAL fiscal-year column from a later annual-budget presentation; source labels, zeros, and dashes are preserved.
  • The FY2022-23 budget book PDF page 37 supplies ACTUAL 2019-2020 and 2020-2021; the FY2024-25 book PDF page 36 supplies ACTUAL 2021-2022 and 2022-2023.
  • The FY2025-26 budget book PDF pages 68-69 supplies ACTUAL 2023-2024; the FY2026-27 book PDF pages 69-70 supplies ACTUAL 2024-2025. Personnel, operations, and fixed-asset subtotals are excluded from detail rows to avoid double counting.
  • The later presentation identifies Patrol as department 602 with account prefix 01-0602.
  • The FY2022-23 actual total 2,133,644 agrees between the FY2024-25 and FY2025-26 books. Deferred Compensation changes from 9,597 to 9,596 and Liability Insurance from 49,620 to 49,621 in the later presentation; these offsetting one-dollar source differences are preserved in the selected historical column.
  • The FY2023-24 actual total 2,640,295 agrees between the FY2025-26 and FY2026-27 books.

These changes do not establish changes in service quality or explain why spending changed. Budget amendments and meeting decisions have not been reconciled with this series.

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