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Residents urge council to support tax increase and post financials; praise for new city secretary
Summary
At the budget workshop residents urged the council to adopt a higher tax rate to stabilize finances, called for better online availability of annual financial reports, and praised the new city secretary for her work during staff transitions.
Two residents used the workshop public-comment period to press the council on budgeting and staffing.
Martha Sanchez (217 Voigt) opened public comments by saying she supported a tax increase to maintain services and criticized what she described as previous budget practices that, in her view, deferred necessary reserves and masked true operating costs. Sanchez urged the council to post the city’s comprehensive annual financial report…
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