City management will probably be forced to cut Patterson employees’ salaries to reduce a nearly $1 million projected shortfall for the three months remaining in the city’s fiscal year, Mayor Rodney Grogan said.
Patterson officials budgeted $6.5 million in revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30. But the city has only brought in $4.2 million so far this year with just one quarter left, Grogan said at Tuesday’s council meeting.
If city officials don’t reduce expenses for the city’s current year budget, they expect a $975,000 budget shortfall.
The city must still provide services to residents and businesses, so Grogan proposed reducing ...