Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best was expected to publicly announce her resignation after the city council approved a reduction in the budget of the city’s police department of less than one percent after months of protests demanding that it defund the force.

The council approved a revised 2020 budget that reduced the department’s budget by $3.5 million for the remainder of the year and invested $17 million in community public safety programs.

The protesters had demanded a 50% cut to the department’s annual budget following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in police custody on May 25.

According to a report in the New York Times, Carmen Best said in a message to the Police Department that she would retire next month and was “confident the department will make it through these difficult times.”