Public safety, code enforcement, infrastructure top Evans’s budget

The $627 million budget marks new investments in public safety and infrastructure.Multiple investments aimed at enhancing public safety, boosting code enforcement, and expanding the city’s nascent Person in Crisis Team were priority items in a proposed city budget unveiled Friday by Mayor Malik Evans. The $627 million spending plan represents a $55 million increase from the previous year, a number that might seem astronomical but is in line with the nation’s skyrocketing inflation ra