Austin Council Member Greg Casar said in a Tuesday statement that the city will continue to redistribute the city's police budget despite the governor's threat to freeze the city's property tax.
The city of Austin said it is"committed to continue" defunding the police despite Texas Governor Greg Abbott's threat to freeze property tax in the city.
Abbott announced a proposal that would freeze the property taxes of any city that is considering diverting funds from local law enforcement."Cities that endanger residents by reducing law enforcement should not then be able to turn around and go back and get more property tax dollars from those same residents whose lives the city just endangered," the governor said at a news conference.
Cutting the police department's budget by a third, the city council announced a plan to redistribute $21 million to fund community resources, another $80 million to city services and $49 million to the Austin Reimagine Safety Fund, which aims to provide non-policing forms of public safety.
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