Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren will give her State of the City address Monday night. Credit: FILE PHOTO

Mayor Lovely Warren’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year maintains current city services, requires no staff layoffs, and gives homeowners a small tax cut.

Warren announced her budget in a press conference at City Hall this morning. She was able to close an anticipated $50.1 million budget gap, she said, through both savings and additional revenue.

Savings came from debt service adjustments, fuel and utility savings, “department reductions and efficiencies,” and by adjusting the city’s capital program, she said. The city will gain additional revenue from higher collections on delinquent taxes, an increase in revenue from payments in lieu of taxes, additional state aid, additional drawdowns from the general fund balance, and other sources, she said.

City Council will hold hearings on Warren’s proposal on June 7, 13, and 14 and will vote on it on June 20.

This article appears in May 17-23, 2017.

Mary Anna Towler is a transplant from the Southern Appalachians and is editor, co-publisher, and co-founder of City. She is happy to have converted a shy but opinionated childhood into an adult job. She...

2 replies on “Warren’s budget: no layoffs, small tax cut”

  1. The city spends so much on tearing down vacant houses, seems a better use of money to get those houses into private ownership and repopulate neighborhoods

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