The public hearing for Dauphin’s 2020 budget will be happening virtually on May 4th, and there are three ways you'll be able to weigh in with your feedback.
City Manager Sharla Griffiths explains that city staff have been conducting their business virtually over the past few weeks using Microsoft Teams software. Council meetings and the budget hearing are also being live-streamed on Youtube, and shared to Facebook.
To give your input during the May 4th budget hearing, you’ll have the option to (1) call in, (2) join by Microsoft Team, or by (3) writing a comment or question on the live Youtube stream.
Griffiths encourages anyone looking for more information to phone City Hall.
What she could say about the budget was that “staff have done a great job at determining what are crucial projects", and what projects are more “cosmetic” in nature and may be easily postponed until 2021.
She suggested money may be directed to things like street maintenance and crucial underground water sewer lines.
“I suspect the public will see a very basic budget, but definitely continuing on with scheduled maintenance and rehabilitation of our major infrastructure.”
The City Manager finished by saying she understands there are lots of questions about what the municipal government is doing for residents and business owners struggling through the COVID-19 crisis:
“Once we’re able to talk about the budget, we will have information put together for that. Just know, those are things that council is also looking at; how do we help residents and what’s in our purview to be able to help them.”
