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Mayor Kara Spencer keeps her office budget largely unchanged while pledging personnel and technology reviews
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Mayor Kara Spencer presented the mayor’s office budget to the Board of Aldermen Budget Committee on May 6, saying the office will keep the proposed spending largely the same as last year while focusing on staff reorganization, a forthcoming pay study and technology upgrades.
Mayor Kara Spencer told the Board of Aldermen Budget Committee on May 6 that she is keeping the mayor’s office budget largely unchanged from the prior year while she conducts a short-term staffing reorganization and plans a citywide pay study.
The mayor’s office is presenting a budget similar to the one prepared by Budget Director Paul Payne and does not plan to ask the board for additional funds for the office this fiscal year, Spencer said. Most spending in the office is for personnel; the mayor noted modest allocations for office equipment and supplies.
The mayor said she had only been in office a short time when the budget was finalized, leaving little opportunity to redesign it. “We did keep the budget exactly the same as presented to us,” she said, adding that changes she envisions are staff…
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