Police Vacancy Requests

At a glance

• What: File 260786, vacancy requests, fund transfers and equipment requests from the budget and management division, including police positions and a community service officer position with a high vacancy rate.
• Where it stands: Adopted without objection in Finance & Personnel Committee on October 7, 2026.
• Next: Funding and recruiting for community service officers to be taken up at the Police budget hearing.

Detail

• Members questioned why the community service officer position was not being advertised; the department said recruiting is planned for the upcoming year pending budget results, and the budget director will follow up on 2027 funding.

Sources

• Whisper speech-to-text transcript of the 2026-10-07 - Finance & Personnel Committee meeting.

Log

2026-10-07 - Finance & Personnel Committee

Vacancy requests approved without objection; community service officer recruiting questioned.