The new budget calls for about $6 million in cuts and a reduction in the police force by eight officers.
The Council stressed they are not reducing patrol officers. They are also asking non-sworn employees to work five days a week, 8 hours a day, instead of four 10-hour days.
The city's interim Police Chief Steve Staveley resigned on Monday over that plan, calling most of the City Council "incompetent, unskilled and unethical" in a scathing letter.
Staveley accused the council of manufacturing a fiscal crisis to justify cutbacks.
