PORT TOWNSEND — City leaders are calling a town meeting March 6 to explain the city’s fiscal challenges and ask residents how best to prop up services threatened by depleting tax dollars.
Preparing for that town meeting Monday night, City Manager David Timmons told City Council members during a workshop that two questions should be answered at the meeting:
The meeting is part of the city’s mid-cycle assessment of its comprehensive plan, said city Planning Director Rick Sepler.
It extends beyond the group coffee hours conducted in the past for comprehensive plan review.
The problem, as Timmons sees it, is that the city has absorbed $1 million of expenses in its general fund in the past five years without tax-revenue relief.
The City Council approved a $26 million city budget with a $1.6 million general fund for 2008.
