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  • Mayor Durkan vetoes council’s 2020 budget revision that would have cut up to 100 Seattle police officers

    08/22/2020 10:01:03 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    Seattle Times ^ | 8/21/20 | Evan Bush
    Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, after vetoing Friday the revised 2020 budget approved last week by the City Council, called for new collaboration with council members, with whom she’s often been at odds. “The people of Seattle expect us to work together,” Durkan said during a Friday afternoon news conference, adding that she had spoken to Council President M. Lorena González on how to “make changes in a more thoughtful, deliberate way.” The council’s adjustments to the budget would have cut up to 100 police officers, slashed the salaries of police command staff and also scrapped the city’s Navigation Team, which...