Anne Arundel County Council approves additional $6.6 million for police overtime, signing bonuses

The Anne Arundel County Council unanimously voted Tuesday night to approve nearly $7 million in additional overtime pay and special pay including signing bonuses for the Anne Arundel County Police Department this fiscal year. During budget deliberations for the current fiscal year, the council only approved about $16 million for those expenditures. Additional unplanned compensation expenses required the council to approve a supplemental budget appropriation of $6.6 million.