Naperville’s City Council may add funding for a police mental health unit amid what city staff say is an already tight budget for next year.

Councilman Ian Holzhauer pushed the city to explore funding options for the Naperville Police Department’s Mobile Crisis Intervention Team (MCIT) at a budget overview workshop Monday, arguing that fully funding the program is critical to properly addressing mental health crises in the city.

“We’ve been talking about this program for years and this is an essential to me,” Holzhauer said.

Earlier this year, city staff were staring down a $6.5 million deficit caused by the elimination of the state grocery tax alongside a $4 million deficit caused in part by skyrocketing health insurance costs and a decline of certain city revenue sources. The city h

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