The Worcester City Council on Tuesday night voted unanimously to approve the Fiscal 2021 budget, including a quarter-million dollar increase for the police department, despite weeks of demands from the residents to divert those funds back into the community. Councilors approved the budget during a virtual meeting and after an hour of hearing residents call in, renewing pleas that the increase for the police budget instead be spent on things like the public schools, public health and transportation. Worcester’s Fiscal 2021 budget has $163.2 million in city operations, 32% of which goes to the Worcester Police Department, the highest allocation...