The Finance and Administration Committee of the Jonesboro City Council plans to discuss Mayor Perrin’s proposed 2016 operating budget.
The committee will meet before the full council meeting scheduled for tomorrow. According to the Jonesboro Sun, the total budgeted expenditures for maintenance and operations is about $42 million for 2016, down almost $2.5 million from the 2015 budget.
Also proposed is a $131,000 budget increase for the city’s E-911 dispatching service to hire an additional full-time call taker.
Plans to convert a part-time city Planning department employee to a full-time position and naming Jonesboro Sun’s Editor Emeritus Roy Ockert Jr. to serve as Perrin’s interim communications director are also in the budget.
Cities are required by state law to adopt an annual budget by February 1st.