is there any wiggle room for hiring more officers?

We lost 9 officers to the early retirement program last June. That's the bad news, the good news is that we just hired 2 replacement officers last week - they go to the police academy Friday, so we won't see them until late fall. We are hiring 2 more replacement officers who start this Friday. They are already POST certified police officers so they will start their field training right away and working on their own after about 12 weeks. We're still not up to levels we were years ago, but we're trying. That being said, I have no idea what impact the latest budget proposal before the legislature will have on us.