FORKS — The City Council will hold a budget workshop at 5:30 this afternoon, before the regularly scheduled 7 p.m. council meeting during which decisions will be made on the Dahlgren annexation and property taxes.
“We’ll flat out go right through the budget,” Mayor Bryon Monohon said Sunday.
In the past, Forks councils have had department heads make presentations on their department’s budgets.
But this year, it will be a line-item by line-item council review of the entire expense budget, Monohon said.
A formal budget hearing will be held at the 7:30 p.m. meeting after the workshop.
Pizza and soda will be on hand for those who attend the workshop session.
The budget is expected to be finalized and approved at the chamber’s Dec. 5 meeting.
At the 7:30 p.m. regular meeting, a final decision will be made after a public hearing on the Dahlgren annexation.
The annexation, covering 158.5 acres, has been in the works since spring. It was delayed after land identified as being part of the Dahlgren parcel was found to actually belong to another owner.
The other landowner had to agree to the annexation before the city could continue.
The council will also review and vote on the property tax rate, which by law can be raised by 1 percent each year.
Monohon said the city did not take the allowable 1 percent tax increase last year, and is unlikely to take it this year either.
The council also will discuss water adjustment fees, medical and dental insurance for city employees and a taxi license request.
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