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The Ottawa Police Services Board Thursday morning received the force’s 2016 draft budget that calls for the hiring 25 new recruits and also makes 25 officers already on the job full-time.
The draft police budget sees officers receiving an additional $7.2 million this year, after a tax rate increase of 1.75 per cent, which brings the total police operating budget to $277.1 million.
The average homeowner will pay an extra $11 on their property tax bill specifically for police services.
Police will receive a 1.75 per cent budget increase from taxes, but with additional money coming from growth in the assessment base, they’ll get the two per cent hike in operating costs like other city departments. However, growth in the base budget falls $800,000 short of what was expected. In 2015, police received $8 million in new money, but in 2016 will only receive an additional $7.2 million.
Approximately $5.9 million will go towards maintaining existing policing services. New services will get $2.2 million of the budget increase. The force is committed to hiring 25 new officers in 2016 to ease officer workload and police a growing city. Those new recruits will stake claim to $1.3 million of new funds.
Though both Mayor Jim Watson and police board chair Coun. Eli El-Chantiry have said that any further hiring plans will have to fall in line with a strict 2-per-cent cap on tax hikes, forecasted budgets for 2016 and 2017 show police are continuing their plans to hire and will project being able to find efficiencies to do so.
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The draft police budget sees officers receiving an additional $7.2 million this year, after a tax rate increase of 1.75 per cent, which brings the total police operating budget to $277.1 million.
The average homeowner will pay an extra $11 on their property tax bill specifically for police services.
Police will receive a 1.75 per cent budget increase from taxes, but with additional money coming from growth in the assessment base, they’ll get the two per cent hike in operating costs like other city departments. However, growth in the base budget falls $800,000 short of what was expected. In 2015, police received $8 million in new money, but in 2016 will only receive an additional $7.2 million.
Approximately $5.9 million will go towards maintaining existing policing services. New services will get $2.2 million of the budget increase. The force is committed to hiring 25 new officers in 2016 to ease officer workload and police a growing city. Those new recruits will stake claim to $1.3 million of new funds.
Though both Mayor Jim Watson and police board chair Coun. Eli El-Chantiry have said that any further hiring plans will have to fall in line with a strict 2-per-cent cap on tax hikes, forecasted budgets for 2016 and 2017 show police are continuing their plans to hire and will project being able to find efficiencies to do so.
syogaretnam@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/shaaminiwhy
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