AUDIO - City of Sultan's June 15, 2006 Financial/Budget Workshop
YTD (5/31/06) budget status - A handout distributed by Interim Finance Director Gordon Hey at workshop
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Audio File A (2.1 mb) Interim City Finance Director Gordon Hey - Offers YTD budget summary
Audio File B (1.8 mb) - Interim City Finance Director Gordon Hey - Details status of YTD budgeted revenues
Audio File C (1.3 mb) - Interim City Fiannce Director Gordon Hey - Details status of YTD budgeted expenses
Audio File D (1.5 mb): City Attorney Thom Graafstra, summarizing only remaining alternatives available to the city by which addl. tax revenue can be collected: Establish city B&O tax, increase REET tax, establish an enact a 6% utility tax on Cable services, and its "Snowball in Hell" alternative: increase property tax revenue by a vote of people. (G.R.I.T. note: "The well is dry....")
Draft/proposed B&O Tax ordinances were given to L. Storm by Thom Graafstra following this workshop; here is the file containing the ordinances as proposed during the council's July 13, 2006 hearing. (We did not compare them word-for-word so we do not know whether any revisions took place between 6/15 and 7/13.)
Audio File E (1.0 mb) City Attorney Thom Graafstra explains city B&O tax.
Audio File F (1.3 mb) City Attorney opines on increased REET tax.
Audio File G (761 kb) - PUBLIC COMMENTS were allowed