Link to September 13 Portage Daily Register article, "Bleak budget time for Portage; fee increases, furloughs not out of the question".Excerpt: Common Council member Fred Reckling said that the city department heads need to evaluate their budgets "dime by dime."
"I think we should go back to zero-based budgeting, which we did a number of years ago, and ask departments to analyze every expenditure as to whether it is valuable or not," Reckling said.
According to Plaster, the $300,000 shortfall is based on initial department requests and takes into account a 3 percent increase in the city levy - the highest percent increase allowed by state.
The levy limit on municipalities is imposed by the 2009-2011 state budget bill. It generally prevents a municipality from increasing its levy over the amount it levied the previous year by no more than 3 percent.
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