Curing $787K Budget Shortfall Won't Be Easy, Officials See
Brookfield needs to find a way to fill a projected revenue gap, which may include a hike in fees, reduction in staff and services or all of the above. Officials see significant challenges in each option.
Since state aid numbers came out, the city of Brookfield has been looking at a rather large pill to swallow. A $787,000 dose of medicine, to be more exact, based on Gov. Scott Walker's proposed biennial budget. Robert Scott, director of finance, hoped to lay out the available options to the Finance Committee Tuesday night. It became clear that while they would rather get the discussion going sooner than later, the real decisions would need to come from the department heads. "It's hard to go back to the taxpayers and charge them for services that they feel are free, or part of their property tax bill," Alderman Scott Berg said. "In the city, there are 300 employees, and for those department heads that oversee them, I guess I would rather …
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