Notes from Town Square: Green River's budget process

The governing body passed the recent fiscal year 2016-2017 budget two weeks ago and to get to that approval was just that, a process.

We are always looking at the budget and managing all of its elements, and as a city, we developed our initial internal and external meetings schedule in February. This schedule included department head meetings, Finance Committee meetings, six promoted workshops for the public on elements of the budget such as community service requests, the enterprise funds and their rate study, fee schedules, the general fund, as well as the hearing and adoption of the bud...