City budget looks to tighten spending

Departments outline how cuts would be realized

Sunday, September 2, 2012

The Jefferson City Council is nearing the end of a tough budget process. In the tight fiscal year, more than one program or service has had to fight to continue normal operations, with services such as the city transit system and JCTV still unsure of what the future holds financially.

But the single largest savings marked in the proposed 2013 budget comes from across the board department cuts equaling $582,775.

The News Tribune has provided a breakdown of each department’s proposed cuts and how it would be achieved, as outlined in last week’s budget meetings.

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bertd 9 months, 2 weeks ago

This is yet another article on spending cuts that omits actual data. Why is government/the press afraid to give us real data? Please include data on the total city spending in each of the past several years as well as proposed total spending in the new budget. Let us make up our minds about "cuts".

JCLifer 9 months, 2 weeks ago

They probably need to cut the # of FTEs by 10% or so.

Not only do we need to see the history of spending over the past few years, but we also need to see the number of FTEs over the past few years.

online_editor 9 months, 2 weeks ago

@bertd: As referenced above, you'll need to access the complete article for specific budget data, available in Sunday's newspaper or online in Sunday's e-Edition. --Rick Brown, online editor, News Tribune

JCLifer 9 months, 2 weeks ago

They need to get rid of the community service employees who drive up and down High Street all day in their brand new gas hog 1-ton trucks. All they are doing is trying to look at the girls uptown.

The city budget only cuts services to citizens like repairing the horrible streets.. It doesn't cut any of the fluff that makes life easier for city employees or their cronies. They didn't cut any of the employees.

How about eliminating all the subsidies for the Chamber and the CVB? They got that dedicated hotel tax and we still have to give them more money?

Vote all the council members out. Vote out the mayor. Get rid of the $200,000.00 city administrator too.

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