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Mayor

Proposed Salem Public Library cuts may be avoided by mayor’s motion

Salem’s proposed budget — which includes eliminating jobs at the library and completely closing the West Salem library branch — drew the ire of about 50 protesters, and garnered a packed council room and nearly 200 pages of written testimony for Wednesday’s budget committee meeting. A motion made by Mayor Chris Hoy during the evening […]

City Council

Detroit City Council OKs $2.7 billion budget for 2025 fiscal year | #citycouncil

Detroit City Council adopted the mayor’s proposed $2.7 billion budget five minutes before midnight after long discussions Monday regarding recommended uses of the city’s one-time funds. Mayor Mike Duggan in March proposed the 2025 fiscal year budget, of which $1.46 billion is for the general fund, aimed at boosting spending in multiple areas, including police […]

Arkansas

Arkansas higher education faces reduction budget proposal

Under a proposed budget released in March by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, public funding for higher education in Arkansas would be reduced by more than $2.4 million. Nearly all of the schools in the University of Arkansas system would each see funding cuts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, along with cuts for two-year […]

City Council

$94M in line items approved by City Council | #citycouncil

On Monday, the Bartlesville City Council unanimously approved $94,123,445.18 worth of line items, from WiFi upgrades to major improvements to the wastewater plant. Here’s where it all went. $83,235,500: The Council locked in a loan rate from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board for an Oklahoma Department of Equilty required improvement to the Chickasaw wastewater treatment […]

City Council

Salem councilors consider cutting 33 vacant positions | #citycouncil

Salem City Council will hold a public hearing Monday and vote on whether to amend the 2024 budget and eliminate 33 vacant positions. The changes are needed due to a budget deficit. With the failure of the payroll tax measure, the city must amend the budget as staff continue to find other sources of revenue. […]

City Council

Three takeaways from Pueblo’s 2024 city budget proposed to city council | #citycouncil

After a record-setting $133 million city budget in 2023, the city is planning to spend slightly less in 2024. Pueblo City Council passed a $132.6 million budget Monday evening. After sales tax revenue was unexpectedly high in 2021 and 2022, spending increased at a modest rate of just 1% from 2022 to 2023. Here are […]