jfisher@timesrepublican.com
The city is looking at changes in expenses to eliminate its $62,193 deficit in the general fund budget for fiscal year 2022.
The Marshalltown City Council was presented a menu of five potential solutions to tackle the deficit. They are:
• Reduce agreement with the Marshalltown Chamber for tourism and marketing
• Reduce non-bargaining wage increase from 2.5 percent to lesser figure
• Transfer council-designated local option sales tax for deficit
• Use fund balance fiscal year 2021 projected to end with surplus of $400,000
• Reduce line items.
Line items were suggested by city departments when asked for reductions. Some of the larger line item reductions included the library book spending by $5,000, mosquito spray by $4,000 and Summer Blast admissions by $4,000.