By Alex Benzegala
Panhandle Post
Finances for the city of Alliance were largely discussed at this week's City Council meeting. Seth Sorensen was a guest on the KCOW morning show and discussed the 2023-2024 Appropriation bill.
"This year we did a little different approach, we did what is called zero based budgeting," Sorensen said. "That means that we went back to zero on everything, department heads had to claim each individual thing that they would be working on in the coming year.
Sorensen continues to say that the budgeting approach went well because the Alliance will be approximately two million dollars below the budget they had two years ago.
Alliance City Treasurer Cindy Baker also presented the 3rd quarter financial report and Sorensen says that it's mostly positive for the city.
"It looks good, we are on track for our expenditures, we are actually below what is anticipated for this far along in the year," Sorensen said. "Revenues are still down a little bit in some of our funds, but that is due to the last quarter being where we receive a lot of those property tax payments, we see more electricity and water use during these last few months," Sorensen said.
For more information, contact the city of Alliance at (308) 762-5400