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City Budget In Red, Expected By Local Leaders

The City of Clinton's fiscal year budget will end in the red but that is to be expected according to one city official.

 

Clint Licthenwalter is the Clinton City Treasurer and indicates the city ending in the red was to be expected because of one-time expenses that are normally not a part of the budget.

 

 

Communities like Clinton continue to face the possibility of the State of Illinois withholding sales tax but Lichtenwalter notes they haven't been able to get that to passed. In the meantime, city revenues have remained flat.

 

 

The biggest unknown for the City of Clinton falls in line with the biggest unknown for every other community in Illinois. Lichtenwalter says the state's fiscal mess makes things difficult and items in the Governor's proposed turnaround agenda.

 

 

Last Monday night, Lichtenwalter presented the budget before the Council. It was pointed out by Finance Commissioner Tom Edmunds, the City is making the biggest invest in the streets that he's seen in his time on the Council. 

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