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Mesquite manager proposes citywide service-delivery assessment after tax-rate vote yields about $2 million
Summary
City Manager Cliff Kahealy told the council the post-election tax rate (0.70469) will provide just under $2 million in near-term revenue and proposed a citywide service-delivery assessment to identify efficiencies, shared resources, fee adjustments and technology improvements; councilmembers debated fee-based services, protecting sales-tax streams and employee pay.
City Manager Cliff Kahealy told the Mesquite City Council on Dec. 1 that the tax-rate set after the recent election — 0.70469 — will provide just under $2 million in additional revenue for the current budget year and gives the city an opportunity to address long-term service funding.
Kahealy proposed a citywide service-delivery assessment covering every department and division to identify duplicated efforts, opportunities to share resources, fee adjustments to better cover costs, technology improvements and other process changes. He emphasized the review is a strategy exercise, not an immediate plan…
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