MI Wants Input From Citizens To Solve Budget Woes

From the City of Mercer Island: In July 2017, the City began a public engagement process to share information about the City's financial challenges with the community and to seek public input on how best to balance the budget.

While the current 2017-2018 budget has been temporarily balanced using a one-time surplus, the City is projecting significant deficits starting in 2019.
Recently, the schedule for 2018 public meetings has firmed up, and the City is pleased to announce many new meeting dates as well as another of the very popular call-in meetings known as a Telephone Town Hall. The next community-wide meetings are:

• January 29, 6:30pm at City Hall
• February 10, 10:00am at the Community Center
• March 7, 7:00pm Telephone Town Hall
• March 14, 1:00pm at the MI Library

A Community Advisory Group (CAG) appointed by the City Manager has already begun meeting to review data, discuss the challenges, and identify possible solutions. Ultimately, the CAG will provide a recommendation to the City; the next CAG meeting is in early January.

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