Not surprising, but the candid Finance Reports that centered this era's budget overages on historic OPD spending is over. Back to vague and misleading references to expenditures, "public safety" instead of OPD [OFD was under budget] and also blaming the expenditures on Covid. 
Another example. OFD's overtime expenditures are on budget, but OPD's are catastrophically out of control. While cutting from both is a budget savings, cutting from police only reduces the overage, not the budget. Their budget remains intact and still probably 15 mil over
I read this as foreshadowing that the OPD controls won't actually happen, as well [which was alluded to in the previous finance report]. While Reiskin is also setting up the Council to take the fall for that if they tinker at all with his budget fiats.
Interim Finance Director Margaret O'Brien's report on the budget in October was virtually Glasnost compared to this presentation for the 1/25 Finance Committee meeting. O'Brien laid the deficit squarely on OPD's shoulders more than once.
Note, I tend to attribute these reports to the City Administrator [Reiskin] but they're technically from other departments. Regardless, they go to Reiskin first for approval, and then to the Council, so they're from his administration. I'll be more precise going forward, tho
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