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York City avoids government shutdown, passes budget York Dispatch York City avoided tax hikes, job cuts and a potential government shutdown Wednesday afternoon after council member Edquina Washington relented and supported a 2021 budget that assumes the sale of the city s wastewater treatment system. Washington has for a week been a critic of the plan, first put forth by Mayor Michael Helfrich, that would fund the city s $116.8 million budget without tax increases and job cuts. The alternative to selling the wastewater system, Helfrich has said, was a budget that would have hiked property taxes by 48% and eliminated more than two dozen jobs. ....