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Council approves $7.14M COPS grant
Updated: Tuesday, 04 Aug 2009, 6:16 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 04 Aug 2009, 5:50 PM EDT
Toledo city council members approved and ratified a $7.14 million federally-funded Community Oriented Policing Services Grant late Tuesday afternoon that will rehire 31 police officers.
The measure was presented to council after Mayor Carty Finkbeiner said Saturday morning the city will add 31 officers back to the department by the end of the first week of August.
Those officers not brought back July 1, through a mix of federal and state grants, and who have seniority, will rejoin the police force first, the mayor said.
In all, 60 Toledo policemen and women could be back in the fold by the end of the week, but 15 officers remain laid off. Before the federal and state funding was awarded, the city was forced to shed 75 officers May 1 to help trim a then $20-million-plus budget deficit.
A month after the police force was reduced, 29 officers were called back in early June after the Glass City was awarded two grants from Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and a federal Justice Assistance Grant (JAG).
The mayor said his staff will seek other avenues to return the 15 officers still laid off back into the fold.
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