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Atwater budget workshop spotlights public safety, roads and business growth
Summary
Atwater City held a Feb. 21 budget workshop where staff reviewed municipal budget basics and residents pressed for more police staffing, road repairs and a more active business-attraction strategy; staff promised follow-ups and a second workshop March 28.
Atwater City convened a public budget workshop on Feb. 21 to review the city's fiscal-year schedule, explain municipal fund accounting and collect resident priorities ahead of a draft budget in May and final City Council action in June.
Finance Director Anna Nicholas told the room that municipal budgets are both "a spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year" and a communication tool that expresses spending priorities. She described key revenue sources for Atwater as property and sales taxes, a local cannabis tax routed to the general fund and user fees for utilities, and warned the group about continuing cost pressures such as pension and risk-management…
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