{"id":17516,"date":"2009-11-12T18:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/speak-your-piece-kent-sets-2010-budget-hearing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T22:40:36","slug":"speak-your-piece-kent-sets-2010-budget-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/speak-your-piece-kent-sets-2010-budget-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak your piece: Kent sets 2010 budget hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speak your piece about the city of Kent\u2019s preliminary 2010 budget at a public hearing 7 p.m. Tuesday at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n

The hearing is part of the agenda for the regular City Council meeting.<\/p>\n

Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke last month proposed a $157.8 million operating budget, including a general fund budget of $80.3 million and $11.4 million for capital projects. The rest of the budget is dedicated to other funds such as water, sewer and drainage utilities.<\/p>\n

The general fund budget includes a projected $4.6 million revenue shortfall next year. The shortfall comes from $1 million to go to flood preparedness, as well as an increase in insurance liability, and, due to a drop in assessed property valuations, a $1.1 million reduction in Fire District 37 revenues the city is projected to get.<\/p>\n

To view the 2010 preliminary budget, go to www.ci.kent.wa.us\/financebudget\/index.aspx?id=1226.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speak your piece about the city of Kent\u2019s preliminary 2010 budget at a public hearing 7 p.m. Tuesday at the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 220 Fourth Ave. S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17516"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}