We can't give cash to people ... but we might be able to partner with a non-profit so we can funnel money to that type of assistance. Many called on the city to trim police spending, she said. As the city selects services to maintain, Jones stressed that more conversation will be needed to make adjustments and move toward "a more balanced budget. Smoke rises from the site of a derailed freight train over Tempe Town Lake on July 29, 2020. "What everyone's been calling for in emails and public comment tonight is exactly what we've been doing over the years, and we're going to continue to look at ways that are innovative to do even more," Mitchell said. Archived videos are arranged by date, with the most recent at the top of the list. The meeting agenda is attached to this calendar posting. Public comment on agenda items may be submitted to Susan Buck at susan_buck@tempe.gov no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. Information on how to attend the meeting virtually is provided below.The Fire Public Safety Personnel Retirement System (PSPRS) Board is composed of five members consisting of:Due to health and safety concerns pertaining to Coronavirus (COVID-19), the following meeting will be held virtually via Cisco Webex:The purpose of the Board is to administer the Tempe Fire Public Safety Personnel Retirement System. The city did not directly receive funding from the treasury and this allocation comes from the state’s CARES Act funding. The adjustments were prioritized in three tiers: the first tier is recommended adjustments to budget proposals for police, internal services, purchases, internal hires and more, which would cut nearly $14 million. 24 May 17. Most agreed that the budget adjustments are bad — specifically adjustments to the police — but they disagreed on what should or should not be cut. The first tier of adjustments features cuts across the board, including a $140,000 cut to city utilities, an elimination of museum education activities worth $10,000 and multiple hiring freezes and salary reductions across departments. The crowd of protesters at the Defund Tempe Police rally organized by Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro listen to the organizers and other attendees speak about reallocating funding for the police department to community programs like housing or mental services on Thursday, June 25, 2020, Meyer Park in Tempe. "Let's go look and see if we can replace those program adjustments with other adjustments. The council spent time remembering their inside jokes with Mitchell and commemorating him for his service. The city did not directly receive funding from the treasury and this allocation comes from the state’s CARES Act funding. Smoke can be seen from the train derailment at Tempe Town Lake on July 29, 2020. More than a third of the recommended reductions come out of the police department’s funding. The police budget cuts were discussed in many of the comments, with some arguing the police should not face any cuts, while others advocated for even more cuts and a reallocation of those resources to other community departments.A city "cannot spend more than it brings in," Singla said. to share your ideas for improvements to Daumler Park. Watch a meeting Live stream the meeting at tempe.gov/Tempe11 or watch on your cable TV channel 11. Those losses are projected to continue into 2020-21, with the timeline of recovery uncertain," a joint statement from Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell and Mayor-elect Woods said. "Like any other plan, it is based on the information you have available at the time that you write it," Singla said. Tempe will need to be "somewhat innovative" with how it uses the money, depending on what initiatives the City Council wants funded, he said.The city proposes to slash $4.7 million or about 5% of the police department's $97 million budget for fiscal year 2021. Thursday evenings @ 5pm. The meeting includes a short presentation with an overview of public art concepts, streetcar stops and current design plans.