KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — There will be huge changes in the way the 2017 Kalamazoo City Budget is funded and how they decide how to spend the money at a work session this evening at city hall.
Staff and the commission have been making the transition to priority-based budgeting, which is a whole new way of looking at the spending process.
They will be injecting just over $11 million from the Foundation for Excellence, which will offset a reduction in property taxes, wipe out a projected deficit for next year, and provide additional funding for aspirational projects.
The budget total is just over $147 million, evenly split between general fund spending and enterprise operations, like the water and wastewater plants and the golf courses.
For the first time, Metro Transit isn’t included in the city budget. That agency now owned and operated by a separate authority.
The work session is set to get underway at 6 p.m.
