The Hamilton Police budget: Chief backs down

BY Adam Carter, CBC News

Posted: Apr 15, 2013 10:18 AM ET

Last Updated: Apr 15, 2013 10:53 AM ET

Hamilton Police Chief Glen Decaire is backing down in the budget stalemate with city council.

Decaire is recommending that the police services board accept a 3.52 per cent budget increase for 2013, down from the 3.71 the service had been asking for. If, as expected, the board accepts the chief's recommendation, the vote will avoid sending the budget to a provincial arbitration panel.

Council refused to accept the 3.71 per cent increase requested by the chief and passed the 3.52 per cent increase earlier this month.

The force originally asked for a 5.25 per cent increase.

To achieve the decrease the chief trimmed budgets in several departments.

The agenda for the today's board meeting contains and outline of the changes and also contains a report on the ACTION team — which has been a point of controversy in the budget proceedings. Some say the team pulls officers away from other duties needlessly, while others say it provides a vital service.

CBC Hamilton has decided to try something new with the meeting's agenda. In the box below, we've opened the document up for your comments. Scroll through and at any points of interest you find, click the annotate button. Now you can click on comment, click on the portion of the document and add your own comments or points of view.

Other people will see what you've written and be able to add to it, creating a crowd-sourced document analyzing the meeting agenda.

Try it and add to the conversation:

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