#TakomaPark council #GavelDown (actually tonight).
Next live posts: 4/20/2026, starting about 7:15 p.m. (barring an intervening Secret Session or Super Secret Session). Don't miss it if you can.
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#TakomaPark council: DCM Eubanks hopes for clarification on which elements of $3 million assigned reserve would be reduced in a $1 million proposal. Councilmember Schlegel undertakes to provide details.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Landman undertakes to confer with Councilmember Schlegel and then speak with staff.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Honzak worried about staff capacity to put dollar amounts on items without them; wonders if folks might be willing to remove items.
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#TakomaPark council: DCM Eubanks notes proposed decrease of $275,000 in red light camera fund expenditures; Councilmember Schlegel notes that some reductions have now been proposed by police; others are new items that did not appear in previous capital improvement plans.
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#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy: "We will pick up with the other items next Monday." Hopes to flag items already discussed "so we don't have to talk about them again."
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Dyballa doesn't see how this is a budget item, given the individual budget item changes needed. "I am not prepared to talk about this item."
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Landman notes possibility of more-constrained inflation adjustments at the high end of the pay scale.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Landman addresses a "non-union staff salary limitation." Notes that equal percentages of raises for top-level management and other employees increases the disparity between those earning high salaries and those earning low salaries.
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#TakomaPark council: police chief notes that an original proposal was for the county to pay the city for a level of policing lower than what the city provides; the city negotiated a fixed roughly $4 million payment, to be increased only if the county's level would cost more.
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#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy asks for explanation of basis for county payments.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Schlegel notes a couple of non-reconciliation items. Hopes for budget information on sales of vehicles and information on effect of lack of inflation adjustments on county payments to city.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Wesolek sees atrium proposal as altering agreed-to project based on considerations not known at time. "We want the building to be better, and we all voted on that."
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#TakomaPark council: public works head notes that atrium project will increase space available on ground floor.
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#TakomaPark council: public works head notes the insufficiency of size of existing dispatch space. Notes noise challenges produced by atrium; project addresses these.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Schlegel concerned that offices might be used by those receiving help. Police: this is about reponding to 911 calls, not people coming in.
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#TakomaPark council: does atrium project address both mental health needs and dispatch needs? Police chief: yes.
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#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy: but no agreement yet on changes? Police chief: discussions coming up; counselors may eventually respond to outside-the-city calls but would still respond to city calls.
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#TakomaPark council: city manager notes that currently counselors have offices in the city but work in the field; there's the possibility that when the pilot program ends, counselors would have a bigger field.
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#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy: "The county has no say-so in what we do with our space." Believes that if mental health program is eventually paid for by county, it must serve folks more than just city folks.
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#TakomaPark council: Mayor Searcy: "I don't know where you're getting this intel from."
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Landman echoes the possibility that it would be a county program based in a city building; wonders if a county program's space needs are best met with city funds.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Schlegel addresses a change to design of an atrium project. Notes county proposal to have mental health counselors deal with both city and non-city cases.
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Wesolek: "I'd rather keep a cushion [in the ERR]."
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Wesolek wants to have money for investigations available if needed. Does not see a need to reduce the ERR; "we will be buying new equipment."
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#TakomaPark council: Councilmember Dyballa wonders how pension fund contribution would come out of equipment replacement reserve. DCM Eubanks: $550,000 would go to pension and $650,000 to ERR (rather than $1,200,000) to ERR.
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#TakomaPark council: police chief: freeze of either three or four positions has the same impact.
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#TakomaPark council: police chief notes impact on existing staff: on morale; mental health; physical health.
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#TakomaPark council: start of hour four (given the late start).
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#TakomaPark council: police chief: "We're not doing less; we're doing the same work" with fewer people. Notes overtime expense; notes stress from extra work.
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