By Charla Wurm-Adams
cwurm@wbcowqel.com
It’s taken awhile and probably doesn’t qualify as a labor of love, but the Bucyrus Finance Committee was able to put everything in order for the city’s 2014 budget. From the ordinances to endless pages of budget print out, the Committee persevered after months to closely analyze the entire year’s revenue and expenses.
The total of the General Fund comes in at over $4.5 million with the recently passed Safety Forces Levy providing just shy of $1 million. City Council President Sis Love explains.
“Every year City Council is required to present a balanced budget. This year what makes it a little more complicated, but it’s a nice complication, is that fact that the Safety Forces Levy passed. So we have that money that is included for both the Police and the Fire (departments),” Love said. “The one issue with that of course is that that money may as the tax goes into effect as of the first of the year, but we probably won’t be seeing any major money from that until the end of the first quarter.”
Auditor Joyce Schifer noted fewer negative balances that had to be worked out. The Ohio Mutual Insurance Group donated $15,000 for city shelters.