More on City Council's budget review
As I noted in this previous post, Greensboro City Council is undertaking a detailed review of all city programs and spending, dividing themselves into three committees to review the city's various departments.
When the council committees sit down to do their work, the information they'll have will include a line-item budget for the current year and each department's request for "additional resources" (otherwise known as money) for the 2006-07 budgtet.
The full 2006-07 proposed budget won't be part of their packet of information, City Manager Mitchell Johnson wrote in a memo, because among other issues "the data in it has yet to be checked and verified."
Johnson also added that "with the execption of the major issues you are already familiar with (clear additions to the budget), I expect the budget moving forward to be quite similar to the budget this year."
Johnson has said city staff is projecting a 4.25-cent tax increase driven by the opening of the trash transfer station, debt service on bonds voters approved in 2000 and rising health-insurance costs.
Johnson has also said he'll likely include $1.8 million in his budget to have city buses run every half-hour throughout the day and has said the city needs to add more police officers either this year or next.
As meeting dates are set for the council committees, I'll get them posted.
Update: The committee comprised of Tom Phillips, Yvonne Johnson and Sandra Anderson Groat will meet at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Melvin Municipal Office Building, 300 W. Washington St.