City Panel Calls for Fewer Firefighter Cuts; Budget Finagling Includes Slicing Into Police Programs

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › November 02, 2007

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Milwaukee firefighters won a partial victory over the Police Department in budget action Thursday by a key Common Council committee.

Acting on amendments to the 2008 city budget, the council's Finance & Personnel Committee recommended restoring half the 12 firefighter jobs Mayor Tom Barrett had targeted for elimination.

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City Panel Calls for Fewer Firefighter Cuts; Budget Finagling Includes Slicing Into Police Programs

But the finance panel also called for slicing $300,000 from the mayor's prized summer police patrols and scaling back the expansion of police officers in Milwaukee ...

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