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Council directs plan to eliminate a 16% budget gap; examines dispatch consolidation, library district and new revenues
Summary
After the budget committee recommended narrowing the city’s 16% structural budget gap, the council voted to require the city manager to present a plan to eliminate the gap over three years and discussed contracting dispatch services, forming a library district and a law-enforcement utility fee as potential options.
The Cottage Grove City Council on July 29 adopted a council-level directive that the city manager return with a plan to eliminate a council-identified 16% gap between revenue and expenditures over the next three years, with at least one-third of that gap closed in the first year.
The direction followed a budget committee recommendation that staff present options to reduce the gap. Council amended that recommendation to require full elimination of the gap within three years and carried the amended motion unanimously.
Staff and council discussed both expenditure and revenue strategies, including larger operational changes and revenue proposals:
- Dispatch consolidation: City staff and the police chief reported ongoing conversations with Lane…
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