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Council adopts budget development policy, directs two‑year planning steps
Summary
The council approved a budget development policy and directed staff to pursue a two‑year budget planning approach, centralize the process in the city manager’s office, and return in mid‑year with a recommended deficit tolerance for the second year.
The Sacramento City Council voted Tuesday to adopt budget development policies intended to centralize the process in the city manager’s office, require departments to submit reduction options and to provide a framework for a two‑year approach to addressing the city’s structural deficit.
Pete Coleto, the city’s finance director, told the council that "we're still in structural deficit" and outlined a multi‑option approach staff had presented to the Budget and Audit Committee, including (1) balancing the budget in year two of the forecast, (2)…
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