Parkside council trims draft budget lines, asks staff for revised draft
At a budget workshop councilors went line by line to find savings — from engineering fees to recreation and newsletters — and instructed staff to return a revised draft that removes the proposed 70% police hire and explores offsets to a roughly $127,000 projected gap.
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Council members and staff worked through the draft budget line by line, identifying candidate cuts and clarifications to close a roughly $127,000 projected gap. Specific proposals included reducing recreation and newsletter budgets modestly (recreation down to ~$6,500; newsletter to ~$5,500), lowering projected engineering fees if inspector roles transfer to Katana Engineering, and consolidating fire company bill reimbursements into contributions rather than miscellaneous lines.
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