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San Angelo finance staff lays out menu of revenue options to close budget gaps
Summary
Finance presented dozens of potential revenue and savings measures including a cemetery-specific tax add-on, credit-card convenience fees, impact fees, paid downtown parking, redirecting enterprise charges, vacancy-control and modest across-the-board cuts; council asked for legal review and refined fiscal estimates.
Finance Director Jonathan (identified in the transcript) offered council a broad portfolio of options to increase revenues and reduce expenditures as the city prepares for the budget cycle. He described legal and practical steps needed to pursue each option and emphasized these were ideas for council direction, not formal proposals.
Revenue ideas highlighted included: - A limited cemetery property-tax add-on (up to five cents) to replace a roughly $95,000 annual…
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