Ballinger police chief Stanley Maresch presented his budget request to the city council for the 2019-2020. The budget request is for $1,020,993.00. This year's budget was $785,990.50. The new budget request includes: An increase is starting pay for police officers. He wants to increase the starting salary from $15.00/hour to $16.50/hour. Maresch said that they would also be expected to raise the pay of all of the other officers if they increase the base pay of a new officer. This would, based on the total of the difference between current salaries and proposed salaries, would be an increase of $144,730...
