Budget Documents

Public Safety Services

 

The City of Lacey is a general-purpose government agency providing numerous services through its employees and other contracted sources.  The cost of public safety services (i.e., police, emergency preparedness, district court, jail, prisoner medical expenses, prosecution, indigent defense, and victim advocacy) represent the single largest expenditure from the General Fund.  These services will require $10,759,202 in 2012, which represents 33.9 percent of all expenses within the $31.6 million fund.

Note: Every penny of property tax collected by Lacey cannot meet the funding needs of the most basic purpose for which the city was incorporated — public safety.