Hi everyone!
Of course the big news this week is the rain! Isn't it wonderful! As of today, we have had 8.5 inches of rain at the Airpark - that's correct, 8.5 inches and it looks like we have more to come. It's great!
There was a Council meeting and public work session on 09/10 to discuss the City budget. Currently we are looking at about a $.01 increase over last years tax rate. This would bring us up to a 0.1929 rate.
There are several reasons for the increase, a couple are Building and Development fees are down to about $330K from a high of $1.3 million and our sales tax revenue is down because of the economy. The Staff has done a great job of limiting expenses in various departments and we are looking into trimming expenses even further.
The bottom line is we want to be sure that our safety and quality of life are what we all expect! There will be a Council meeting on 9/21, a public hearing on the budget on 9/28 at 2PM, and another meeting on 10/5 to adopt the budget and tax rate. Come see your City Officials at work!
There is another Council Special Session on September 14th at 2PM to hear the report from the Special Investigator hired because of a letter from Police Chief Bowers. Agenda 9/14/2009
That's all for now. Thanks for LOOKING! I will post rain amounts again as it increases! Email me if you want to be on the notification list.
Thanks again for all the support!
Joe Bain
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