City Council Adopts $3.67-Billion Budget
The Los Angeles City Council formally adopted a $3.67-billion budget Tuesday, giving unanimous approval to a record spending blueprint that includes nearly $60 million in new taxes and abandons plans for 403 new police officers.
The budget for fiscal year 1990-91, which takes effect July 1, emerged from a series of council revisions and a formal review by the mayor with relatively few confrontations. Bradley had sought to increase the size of the Police Department to a record 8,717 people, but he acceded to requests from the council and Police Chief Daryl F. Gates to forgo that plan and use the money for overtime.
The only Bradley veto of council changes involved a technical item on funding for a proposed Fire Department program to have specially trained firefighters rather than paramedics handle routine medical dispatches.
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