Preliminary signs indicate balancing Buckley’s 2012 budget will be an arduous task indeed, as city administrator David Schmidt is seeing red – and a lot of it.
“We had our first budget meeting with all of the heads of departments…and we are going to be struggling to get this thing done, no doubt about it,” Schmidt said.
“All of the dollar figure reports came in and we are going to be eating, breathing, sleeping budget and putting everything else on the back burner for now,” he said. “As it stands right now we are already sadly funding services in the building, parks and planning departments on a half-time basis.”
Schmidt said a tentative glimpse after crunching the numbers told him there is an $85,000 deficit in the general fund as well as a $30,000 deficit in the water and sewer columns combined.
