After announcing plans to increase pay for police, Texarkana, Texas, officials have reworked the numbers and dropped the estimated expense by almost $200,000.

City officals first discussed, in a budget workshop, an across-the-board pay increase for police, estimating a cost of $380,000. But Police Chief Dan Shiner reviewed vacancies in the department and presented a proposal that reduces the expense to $183,000.

“Chief Shiner was willing to adjust the total number of police positions filled during the next calendar year in order to generate the difference in funding,” s...

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