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Steinmeyer acknowledged the missed payments and says he and his wife paid their outstanding bill the morning of the scheduled shutoff May 21, which city staff confirmed, but also disputes the account of his encounter with the meter reader and says he didn’t seek special treatment.
Larger Independence budget has signs of optimism
Mike Genet
mike.genet@examiner.net
After the city of Independence made it through the 2020-21 fiscal year without mass layoffs or furloughs for employees, and with some signs of pandemic recovery showing, City Manager Zach Walker calls his proposed budget for FY 2021-22 one of “cautious optimism.”
The proposed budget of $336.8 million, unveiled during Monday’s City Council meeting, is about $22.8 million (7 percent) greater than the previous year’s budget, which was reduced due to the pandemic. Fortunately, he added, the city did not have to tap into a $25 million contingency loan from utility reserve funds, nor use any of $1.5 million contingency dollars in the general fund.
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