Resolution to protect St. Louis County police funding amid Defund the Police protests

If St. Louis County police employees want the $7 million in raises they were supposed to get next fiscal year, the department is going to have to cut 100 employees to do so, according to a budget overview presented to the police board Tuesday. The county’s budget department told Chief Mary Barton she had to keep the department’s budget at the same amount as it was last year, which did not include the $7 million in pay raises, according to Joyce Hill, the department’s fiscal services supervisor. Full Story: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/loc...