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City outlines $7M in proposed cuts and service reductions to narrow FY27 gap
Summary
Budget staff presented a package of nearly $7 million in savings — including vacancy eliminations, pausing the housing trust contribution, reduced community-center hours, and cuts to public-art and maintenance contracts — that would shrink the projected gap but leave additional balance to find.
Lindsay Spangler, budget and performance manager, walked council through an initial list of budget-balancing strategies that she said would yield just under $7 million toward closing the FY2026–27 shortfall.
Spangler said savings would come from a mix of efficiencies (estimated at about $1 million from training, software and contract reductions), targeted vacancy eliminations (positions vacant 250+ days), program pauses (including temporarily…
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