 Exploring the City's Financial Challenges
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Click to learn more about the City's current budget
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The City has launched a process to help residents understand the financial challenges it faces in balancing its budget, and in maintaining the levels of staffing and quality of services that the community expects.
Last week, the City Manager, and the City's Finance Director invited a small group of community partners to meet informally and begin discussing the issue along with the outline of a proposed public engagement process. Council will begin addressing this topic at its July 17 regular meeting.
These "Quality of Life" partners represent a wide range of groups that make a positive difference in our community and are central to our quality of life on the Island.
Attendees at this preliminary meeting included representatives of the following organizations, in alphabetical order:
- Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT)
- Friends of Luther Burbank Park
- Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce
- Mercer Island Clergy Association
- Mercer Island Football Club
- Mercer Island Friends of the Library
- Mercer Island Preschool Association
- Mercer Island Rotary Club
- Mercer Island School District
- Nowland Premier Soccer Academy
- Senior Foundation of Mercer Island
- Special Olympics
- Stroum Jewish Community Center (SJCC)
- VFW
- Youth and Family Services Foundation
City staff plans to reach out to the many other organizations that serve the community, as well as to residents, over the coming months. To learn more about the City's current budget and anticipated challenges, read the
2017-2018 budget message.
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