Road to Flat Municipal Budget Will Require Layoffs

Down revenue from 2012, a preliminary budget offered to the council could not meet the sought zero percent tax and budget increases. Doing so would require cuts of at least $500,000, and in all likelihood, further layoffs.

The Village’s municipal budget is likely to fall short of a sought zero percent increase in 2013 unless the council is willing to slash more than $500,000, according to the proposal introduced to the council by manager Ken Gabbert Wednesday night. Mayor Paul Aronsohn, Deputy Mayor Albert Pucciarelli, and Councilwoman Gwenn Hauck campaigned on a ‘zero based budgeting approach’ in the election last year that brought them to the council last July. This will be their first budget as a majority on the council. The draft budget proposed by Gabbert, which council members called a “work in progress,” represents a 1.1 percent increase over last year’s final number of $45,2363,596. Two workers would be laid off and departments would have to be …

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