Lewiston Council gives initial approval of $87M budget

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The Lewiston City Council has given initial approval of an $87 million budget for the next fiscal year.

The amount the city expects to use in the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1st is down about $18 million compared with the budget that was approved for this fiscal year.

Mayor Dan Johnson, who has worked to control spending, noted all city departments were asked to reduce the property tax portion of their budgets by 2%. Additionally, personnel budgets were reduced from their original projection while maintaining a 2.5% cost of living increase for employees.

The budget is also benefiting from a total of $1.89 million in revenue that is coming from an unassigned reserve balance the city expects to have of $11.6 million at the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30th.

The council did approve small fee increases of 3.25% for water, 1.5% for waste water and 2% for sanitation.

The budget and property tax revenue will go through two more readings, one on Aug. 15th and another on Aug. 22nd before it is finalized. (Lewiston Tribune)

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