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Committee asks departments to show 7% "stress test" as tax timing debate continues
Summary
The committee proposed a 7% budget "stress test" for departments to show how they would cut spending; members debated whether to delay a tax increase and discussed the trade-offs of small, periodic increases versus structural changes.
At a Davis County Budget Committee meeting, members directed departments to present a 7% "stress test" scenario that shows what would change if budgets were cut by that amount and debated whether incremental tax increases are preferable to deeper cuts.
Speaker 1 framed the exercise as a way to understand vulnerability: "That means you take your budget and you cut it by 7% and show us what that means,"…
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