Here is a link to the full budget that the Council will be reviewing.  It is not a line-item budget but one level of abstraction up.  If you want the line item budget, I’ll find a link but it is an enormous pile of data and kind of difficult to understand without help from staff.  Municipal accounting is done on a modified accrual basis and it can be a real challenge.  

We’ve had our first budget meeting and I’m pretty comfortable about our starting point.  Lots more meetings coming up soon.  Links for the schedule in post below. 

Before you even start crabbing that you can’t find anything about the budget, here are some links:

Here is the schedule of budget meetings – you should attend some!

Here is a copy of the presentation that the manager made on Monday night

I’ll post a link to the full budget when it’s available