{"id":102654,"date":"2017-11-23T15:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-city-council-to-vote-on-draft-2018-budget-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T15:33:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T22:33:19","slug":"cortez-city-council-to-vote-on-draft-2018-budget-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-city-council-to-vote-on-draft-2018-budget-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez city council to vote on draft 2018 budget on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ec37219-154d-4dd6-91df-2399a72b5938&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ec37219-154d-4dd6-91df-2399a72b5938&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ec37219-154d-4dd6-91df-2399a72b5938&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3ec37219-154d-4dd6-91df-2399a72b5938&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1279\" alt=\"The Cortez City Hall is at 123 Roger Smith Ave.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Cortez City Hall is at 123 Roger Smith Ave.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Cortez City Council will consider approving a first reading of the 2018 budget after hearing another round of funding requests at its Tuesday meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The council workshop will begin at 5:30 p.m. and feature requests from nine city departments. During the regular meeting, which starts at 7:30 p.m., the council will vote on a first reading of the budget and a date for the public hearing on it. The tentative date for the final vote on the budget is Dec. 12.<\/p>\n<p>During the council workshop, representatives of the Colorado Welcome Center, the financial department, the city clerk\u2019s office, the Cortez Public Library, Cortez Municipal Court, the human resources department, the police department and the public works department will present their budget requests. Public works director Phil Johnson presented most of his budget requests in October, but he will continue a discussion on a possible water fee increase during Tuesday\u2019s workshop.<\/p>\n<p>The council has several items related to next year\u2019s budget on its regular meeting agenda, including an ordinance that will approve the budget\u2019s first reading, tentatively set the 2018 mill levy and set a date for a public hearing on both issues. Council members will also vote on the first reading of an ordinance that would make revisions to the 2017 budget, and will consider approving fees and charges for the Cortez Municipal Airport and the planning and building department.<\/p>\n<p>Other items on the agenda include the renewal of the city\u2019s lease agreement with the Cortez Retail Enhancement Association for office space in the Colorado Welcome Center, and a letter of support for a grant application being submitted by nonprofit Needful Provision Inc., to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for money to build an indoor garden in Cortez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>of budget requests scheduled for workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,318,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-cortez-municipal-government","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102654"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}