The City Council will discuss and decide whether to place a measure before Concord voters that will extend the existing half-cent sales tax at their special meeting on Tuesday, July 29.
Category: Budget
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Concord Needs a Long-term Financial Plan
The City Council will adopt a budget at their meeting on Tuesday, June 24 that relies heavily on the use of Measure Q dollars (the extra half-cent sales tax) to provide core services.
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Employee contracts on the agenda soon?
Contracts with two city employee unions are set to expire on June 30.
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Can Concord afford to let Measure Q expire?
The City Council will hold the first of two hearings about the proposed 2014-15 budget at their meeting on Tuesday evening, June 3.
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Closing the City’s Structural Deficit
The City of Concord was fortunate in 2008 that as the Great Recession began to impact our local economy and drove our tax revenues into a significant decline, we had $24 million dollars in the bank or a reserve of 30 percent in what was about an $80 million dollar budget.