During a recent Zoom meeting, I heard a senior member of our community say she was worried about city finances—due to the impact of covid, and because of the office vacancies she saw around…

Summary: the state of City finances is unexpectedly strong as we approach year-end.

When covid-19 first broke on to the scene last March, projections for city finances 2020 took a somewhat scary…

Back in April, it was projected that the city’s income tax revenue would drop ≈ 10% for the year, reflecting the anticipated impact of covid-19.  But through the end of August, city income tax…

During the 2019 city council campaigns the general buzz was that our city finances were in distress, and that our economic development outlook was in a state of mismanaged malaise.  Claims were…