{"id":79794,"date":"2015-08-20T14:44:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T19:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79794"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:34:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:34:15","slug":"council-starts-2016-budget-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=79794","title":{"rendered":"Council starts 2016 budget review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/calculator2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69076\" alt=\"calculator2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/calculator2.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The City Council met in the 2016 calendar year budget session.<\/p>\n<p>City Administrator Jeff Fuchs opened the meeting with an overview of the process.<\/p>\n<p>He said with employee salaries, he survey other regional cities with similar populations as Jamestown, and came up with an average salary increase of 4.5 %. Adjustments will be made as of January first, instead on the employees anniversary date. Increases are based on employees salary ranges and step increases.\u00a0\u00a0 The increase does not reflect a cost of living adjustment.<\/p>\n<p>Fuch\u2019s pointed out new outside funding sources, including the Coal Conversion Tax, and the Surge Funding, earmarked exclusively for infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the 2016 budget will only show $156,000 more revenue than the 2015 budget, or two percent.<\/p>\n<p>There is no projected revenue in property tax collections.<\/p>\n<p>The City Fire Department budget includes dollars for an additional Inspection Officer, and Police Department budget includes a request for a new detective position, and $375,000 toward a shooting range. Fuchs said those dollar for the shooting range will not come out of the General Fund. There is a carryover funds from the 2015 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Another budget meeting is planned, for Tuesday August 25th,\u00a0with a presentation from the Jamestown Arts Center and Jamestown Tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the meeting there will be information about the equipment replacement fund, and individual department requests, and salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was shown live on CSi Cable 67.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The City Council met in the 2016 calendar year budget session. City Administrator Jeff Fuchs opened the meeting with an overview of the process. He said with employee salaries, he survey other regional cities with similar populations as Jamestown, and came up with an average salary increase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79794"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79802,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79794\/revisions\/79802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}