{"id":177064,"date":"2019-08-05T10:44:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177064"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:47:32","slug":"valley-city-2020-preliminary-budget-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=177064","title":{"rendered":"Valley City 2020 Preliminary Budget set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-127152\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/VCcommission81517b-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/VCcommission81517b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/VCcommission81517b-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/VCcommission81517b.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Special Session, Monday morning to continue with budgeting for the 2020 City Budget.\u00a0 All members were present.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from \u00a0Monday\u2019s meeting, include, City Auditor Avis Richter said, one insurance policy was eliminated from the budget, reducing the Mill Levy by one mill, \u00a0which left the mill levy increase at\u00a0 $137,00 over last year, a seven percent increase over the 2019 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Transfer of funds were approved, to balance the budget.<\/p>\n<p>Previous budget requests were reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>City County Health\u2019s budget request was untouched.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges Arts Council\u2019s request of $1,000 in the budget was approved. Other funding sources are also available.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Library request was put at 8 Mills, including covering part of the branch library expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The library is also supported with Barnes County Funding.<\/p>\n<p>South Central Adult Services, transportation request of $10,000 was left in the budget.<\/p>\n<p>The City Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the \u00a02020 Preliminary Budget, with the preliminary budget numbers, including the mill levy, mill levy increase, and the mill value and changes over the 2019 budget included, in \u00a0the First Reading of the Ordinance, by the \u00a0City Commission.<\/p>\n<p>From that point on the 2020 budget numbers may be reduced but not increased at any subsequent city budget meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s Budget Meeting was recorded by CSi Cable 68 followed by replays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The Valley City Commission met in Special Session, Monday morning to continue with budgeting for the 2020 City Budget.\u00a0 All members were present. Highlights from \u00a0Monday\u2019s meeting, include, City Auditor Avis Richter said, one insurance policy was eliminated from the budget, reducing the Mill Levy by one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177064"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177080,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177064\/revisions\/177080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}