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Cottage Grove council directs plan to close 16% budget gap; staff to study dispatch consolidation and revenue options
Summary
Council directed the city manager to present a plan to eliminate a 16% budget gap over three years, and asked staff to research potential dispatch consolidation with Lane County, equipment replacement costs, a possible library district and other revenue options.
Faced with a projected 16% gap between revenues and expenditures, Cottage Grove’s City Council on July 14 directed the city manager to present a plan to eliminate that gap over the next three years, with at least one‑third of the reduction in the first year.
City Manager Mike Sauerwein said the recommendation came from the budget committee and that staff supports the goal. "We direct our city manager to present the plan to the council, for eliminating the gap between revenue and expenditure... to eliminate the gap, and to do so with at least a third of that gap being eliminated in the first year," a council…
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