City leaders say Patterson’s proposed 2017-18 budget will be lean but enough to cover essential services. Officials held a budget workshop Saturday to explain to the council the city’s proposed 2017-18 fiscal year budget. Patterson’s fiscal year begins July 1. The council will hold a public hearing for the proposed budget at its 6:30 p.m. Tuesday meeting at City Hall. Council members may make changes to the budget at that meeting and then will be able to adopt the budget. Mayor Rodney Grogan said officials considered many different factors and examined the city’s budget over the past three years. But ...