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Highland council debates how to cover $408,000 public-safety budget increase
Summary
Council members reviewed a tentative budget update that trims earlier draft costs but still raises public-safety spending, and debated whether to cover the gap with a public-safety fee increase or property-tax revenue.
Highland City Council members heard a detailed update on the public-safety portion of the tentative budget and discussed options to pay for an about $408,000 net increase in public-safety costs.
City staff presented the numbers and asked council to consider whether increases should come from the city's public-safety fee or from property tax and sales-tax revenue. Erin (staff member) told the council the public-safety department "is going to receive a 6%, wage adjustment this year," down from 8% that was in an earlier draft, and that reduced dispatch costs created a roughly $230,000 decrease from the earlier tentative draft while still leaving an overall increase to the department.
The discussion matters because with the current tentative budget the…
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