The city’s top fiscal policy board, Estimate and Apportionment, will take public comment on the budget on Friday, then vote Monday on whether to send it to aldermen. They will have until July 1 to make changes, though any spending increases in one area must be balanced out by cuts in another.
“Since 2016, I have called for the closure of the Workhouse due to inhumane conditions,” Mayor Tishaura Jones said Wednesday. “I am proud to begin the process of divesting our city from our expensive arrest-and-incarcerate model, and pledge to shift time, energy and money towards a public safety strategy focused on addressing the root causes of violent crime.”
Budget Director Paul Payne presented the budget plan to Jones, Comptroller Darlene Green and Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed. Collectively, the three make up the Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
Activists who have been pushing to have the jail closed celebrated on social media.
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