A bill that a City Council committee voted down over the summer is on the agenda at tonight’s full Council meeting – a measure approving $21 million to cover the Baltimore Police Department’s ever-spiraling overtime.
With BPD’s total overtime spending of $47 million presenting almost three times what was budgeted last year – and with questions swirling about mismanagement and the prevalence of fraud – the same bill was rejected by the Budget and Appropriations Committee last July.
The fact that the OT bill has now been exhumed and placed before the full Council struck one resident as concerning.
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