City Manager Doug Miller and Budget Manager Jennie Knapp outlined the proposed fiscal year budget on Tuesday, launching a two-week process that will ultimately end with an adopted spending plan.
The total budget for all funds is just over $128 million with the general fund making up around $84 million. The general fund budget includes an increase of about $3.2 million over fiscal year 2017, or roughly 4 percent.
“This budget has been fully vetted,” said Miller. “What we’re doing with the budget is the single most important thing we do. Every dollar has been accounted for to the best of our ability. It’s a status quo budget for the most part, which means we told the departments not to ask for anything they didn’t have last year.”
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Whatever is "saved" will go to my Worchester Co taxes or better yet my regular homeowners insurance (flood/storm/hurricane). Its better than nothing I suppose!
Please remember that every grant that gives OC an asset carries with it a burden of support that is unfunded. Get a new bus, you need a maintenance contract. Get a new bathroom, you need funding for people to maintain it. Get a new Fire Engine, you need a contract to maintain it. It goes on and on.
In spite of what people tell you, NOTHING is totally free unless you don't keep it.
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