The Standard-Examiner reports this morning on the results of last night's Council Session, wherein the Council approved the Ogden City 2011-2012 Fiscal Year Budget. Here's Mr. Schwebke's lede:
OGDEN — With little fanfare Tuesday night, the city council adopted a $152 million fiscal 2012 budget that sets aside money for future employee pay raises and establishes a rainy day fund for municipal projects.(We won't make a big deal out of the apparent decimal place error, but will provide this handy link for Mr. Schwebke's benefit nevertheless .)
The budget is about 8 percent smaller than a $153.3 million budget proposed by Mayor Matthew Godfrey.
You can read Mr. Schwebke's full morning story here:
For the convenience of any numbers wonks among us, we'll also provide these additional materials, for those who'd like to roll up their sleeves and take a closer look.
We've prowled the Ogden City website but were unable to find a copy of this fiscal year's new budget as approved, so for the benefit of those green-eyeshaded readers, we'll instead provide a link to the $153.3 million budget document as proposed by the Mayor's office, which was the council's original starting point, and which the Council chopped back by .8%:
By way of background, the City Council Staff has also emailed to us another budget-related document which adds some perspective to some of the goals the council had in mind in approving this budget:
That's it for now, O Gentle Ones. We'll welcome any commentary on the budget topic, of course... and whatever you do... don't let your eyes glaze over.
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