(CNN) Police Chief Carmen Best announced her retirement Monday night, shortly after the Seattle's City Council voted to cut nearly $4 million from the police department's budget. Best's announcement came on the same day the council approved the mid-year budget cut from the police department's 2019-2020 budget of $400 million. The reduction to the police department budget will equate to $11 million over the course of a year, an amount that is far less than a 50% budget cut that had earlier been discussed. The city council rebalanced the budget in light of the economic crisis brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic and calls to redistribute funds from policing to community programs in the wake of the protests following the death of George Floyd , Seattle City Council President M. Lorena González said in a statement. "I want to thank Mayor (Jenny) Durkan for her continuous support through good times and tough times," Best said in a letter to members of the police force obtained by CNN.

Source: CNN August 11, 2020 07:01 UTC