about that eliminated more than $21 million from the police budget and diverted another 128,000,002 other city departments. it s about a third of their total funding, but just last month, the austin city council voted to give it back for the upcoming fiscal year, that was after the state legislature passed a bill recently that now prohibits the defunding of any texas law enforcement agency. however, it will take time before that cash is infused back into the system, so for now with a shortage of roughly 150 officers, police say they will no longer answer nonemergency calls, listen. we recognize the impact that this is going to have on so many across our department, a lot of work went into making these decisions, i am confident that we as a department will again get through these difficult times. over the summer many