City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced Tuesday he’ll take Tacoma’s 2013-14 general fund budget planning out of City Hall next month and into its neighborhoods, where he’ll seek to “demystify” the process and gather input about city spending priorities from the public.
City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced Tuesday he’ll take Tacoma’s 2013-14 general fund budget planning out of City Hall next month and into its neighborhoods, where he’ll seek to “demystify” the process and gather input about city spending priorities from the public.
“I’m hoping this will be a much more community-oriented process this year,” he said.
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After a journey that included grim projections, hard truths and a changing cast of characters, the City of Tacoma arrived Tuesday at a new budget destination, a place with fewer employees and scaled-back public services.
Shortly before Christmas, Tacoma’s roughly 350 firefighters offered to work one more day per year for the next two years at no added cost – concessions meant to help spare the city from cutting fire services by $1 million, the president of Tacoma’s fire union said this week.
As we reported today, the Tacoma City Council this week approved a new “compensation philosophy” that drops the target pay ceiling for city employees.
When officials announced last week that State Farm indeed is coming to Tacoma and bringing with it hundreds of jobs, missing from the good news were the nitty-gritty details about parking.
Tacoma Public Works Director Richard “Dick” McKinley has left his city job and taken a new temporary position with Tacoma Power, several city officials confirmed Tuesday.
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