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Jun. 2—The Honolulu City Council is expected to decide on a budget today, although it has not yet been finalized how the $196 million in federal funds Oahu is expected to receive from the American Rescue Plan Act will be spent. Mayor Rick Blangiardi proposed a $2.9 billion operating budget, which the City Council has been amending for the past three months. One of the biggest variables that ...

Several people attended the Metro City Council meeting to voice their concerns and opinions about the city budget.

Ending a second budget season amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Howard County Board of Education on Thursday adopted a $942 million operating budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The fiscal 2022 budget is $24 million more than the 2021 spending plan, allowing for an increase in special education staff, student support personnel and a new Digital Education Center. “These are never easy ...

ELKTON — Supporters of the Cecil County Public Library, wearing shirts embroidered with “Love our Library, Fund our Library,” came out to the Public Budget Hearing at Elkton High School Thursday, to voice their opposition to County Executive Danielle Hornberger’s proposed library operating budget cut. Hornberger proposes a cut to the operating budget of 5.7% or $366,202. Her administration has said that the total budget is actually being increased by 12.7% or $818,798 when t...

May 26—MAHANOY CITY — What the final budget and millage increase of the Mahanoy Area School District will be for the 2021-22 fiscal year remains up in the air. The school board met Thursday with the proposed operating budget on the agenda that included a real estate tax increase of 2.2 mills, which would raise millage to 53.5 mills from the current 51.3 mills. However, a majority of directors ...

May 26—A Glynn County Police Department substation could be coming to Glynn Place Mall. The county finance committee unanimously approved the recommendation, pending approval by the county attorney with funding provided by the department's operating budget. A one-year contract to provide 911 emergency service to the College of Coastal Georgia will be recommended to county commissioners. ...

Mayor Dan Plato tabled the City of Cape Town’s R56.6 billion budget - which comes with a number of increases that will have ratepayers forking out more money ​from 1 July 2021.

Residents and businesses won’t see their taxes increased this year. The Municipality of Chester will hold the line on its residential, commercial and sewer rates. It’s the fifth year in a row without an increase. Warden Allen Webber says the pandemic played a big role in shaping the budget but adds council continues to be responsive to non-profits and businesses. The municipality plans to invest in developing a wastewater strategy for its central sewer systems and the universal rate will i...

Cohasset sets warrant for Town Meeting The warrant for Cohasset’s Annual Town Meeting has been finalized and sent to the printers. Town officials have constructed the warrant for the better part of the last nine months, cementing the agenda earlier this month. “Preparation for this year’s Warrant has been underway since last fall,” said Town Manager Chris Senior in a letter attached to the final copy of the warrant. “The most important meeting of the year, Town Meeting represents the ...

May 19—VERNON TOWNSHIP — The "eye-raising" food service budget up for discussion during Crawford Central School Board's Monday meeting likely won't be as bad as it currently looks, according to Superintendent Tom Washington. In projecting operating costs for 2021-22, Nutrition Group Inc., which manages the district's food services, guarantees that potential losses from the program will not ...