Revenue crunch could be in PSJ’s future
The city's current cash position is solid.
None of that, however, is any guarantee for the future, noted City Manager
The city will not know what property values, and in turn tax collections, will look like for the fiscal year which arrives in October.
A clearer vision will come
Projections of losses due to Hurricane Michael have ranged from 40 percent to 10 percent.
The city has partnered with the county and school system to seek
But that is, in effect, another chapter in the saga being written about losses from Hurricane Michael.
The current chapter is troubling enough.
As of this week, the city is down 360 utility customers since the storm.
As Anderson said, consider that roughly
On top of that, Anderson noted that the city levied just over
To date, 51 percent of those tax bills have been paid; that is 49 percent of property owners in the city at the time of budgeting last October have yet to pay their property taxes.
That is another hit of nearly
"Our revenues are way down," Anderson said.
There is some silver in the gloom, particularly some
"Everything is moving forward pretty quickly," Anderson said.
But with pressing expenses and constricting revenues, city commissioners will have hard decisions ahead.
Grant funding
During Tuesday's regular Commission meeting, commissioners approved resolutions seeking two grants.
One would actually be a grant/loan package from the
The city is seeking
The other grant resolution seeks just under
On a separate track, commissioners approved purchasing pumps for lift stations at
In three lift stations (
NPSJ rezoning
Commissioners approved a first-reading of an ordinance which would complete the task of folding the re-zoning of
The re-zoning of roughly 18 acres in
The re-zoning has been sought after a series of public workshops in 2016-2017 resulted in an update of the master plan for the neighborhood of
The move will bring a mixed-use zoning to the corridor with overlay areas with specific land use regulations for different segments of the impacted land.
Greer said a survey of impacted business and property owners revealed no negative feedback to the concept.
"I think the entire community is grasping what we are trying to do here," said Commissioner
By approving the first reading of the resolution, commissioners approved transmittal of the plan to the
After a state agency review, and any comments, the ordinance will be brought back to commissioners in 30 days, Greer said.
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