City approves budget for new fiscal year
City council members and the mayor plan to stay within budget in the upcoming 2018 fiscal year. “You have to have a budget. If we don’t have a budget starting October 1, you can’t pay bills, you can’t make payroll, you can’t do anything.” Last night, council members, the mayor, and city department heads met longer than normal to approve an operating budget of roughly $55.4 million dollars. “We are now adding more police officers; it made our budget increase a little more tha