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| Middletown Community News |
| City Council Approves 2009 Budget |
| Wednesday, December 3, 2008 8:53:42 AM - Middletown Ohio |
 By: Tara Kunkle
On Tuesday, December 2nd the Middletown City Council approved its budget for 2009. The $29.6 million general fund budget was finally balanced after several months. The budget for 2009 is $774,721 which is more than the city budgeted for 2008 and is projecting a reasonable .6 percent increase in the city’s income tax revenues for the new year.
The officials are currently looking at the budget every once in a while and city manager Judy Gilleland is working with council’s finance subcommittee to keep everyone informed. Included in the budget is a projected budget carryover of just under $7.2 million.
The budget will now take place immediately since it was declared an emergency resolution. This will allow the city to continue to operate and pay the personnel. The councilman Bill Becker believes that next year will be a tough year for the city.
City Council also approved pay and benefits for nonunion employees during the meeting on Tuesday, along with employees of the municipal court and city health department. A lot of those employees will receive a 2 percent pay increase in 2009. Some positions such as fire chief and deputy chief of police will receive a 3 percent increase.
There have only been city positions readjusted and/or reallocated in the city’s administrative restructuring. And there has not been a net increase in the number of full-time positions. The City Council needs to stay strong for the next year in order to make all the tough decisions.
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Archived Comments
| 12/3/2008 11:40:29 AM | John Beagle | I am surprised to not see any staff cuts. Especially full time people.
When my business sees a downturn, so does my staff. | | 12/3/2008 12:09:31 PM | VietVet | | So, there was no added personnel. If Duritsch took Smith's job as Public Works Director, and Smith took the Revitalization Director's job, who took Duritsch's Engineering job? How about the addition of the new hire Econ. Dev. Manager's slot? Where did the money come from to pay for this new position? I don't recall having a Revitalization Director before. Is this a new position? How are we paying for this slot? Was a Director's slot eliminated when Smith's job was made? Publish a list of jobs/salaries that were retained, eliminated and refilled in the MJ for all of us to see.Why all the secrecy? | | 12/8/2008 9:41:10 PM | nick | | And so as we close the year 2008 and trudge our way into 2009 with the bad direction of the city's counsel members, the students lives, get put in danger of their health even more as the possible addition of a coke plant comes to light. There are two schools listed in the top 1% of the nations schools for being in the most toxic in a U.S. Today investigation. Guess what the schools names are, Mayfield and Amanda elementary schools (http://news.cincinnati.com/assets/AB123938128.PDF ) if you do not believe me. But yet the EPA still approves a permit to build the new Suncoke facitlity within proxomity of one of the schools. All I have to say is WAKE UP COUNSEL! Think of the welfare of our children! |
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