City Hall is seeking six community members to serve on the task force that will decide how to trim $3.5 million from its 2020-2023 budget.

The city is planning to reduce spending over the next decade as it grapples with sky-high pension costs and slowing revenues. The 2019-2020 budget it adopted in June was almost $92 million smaller than the previous fiscal year’s budget, but the city council rejected $1.2 million in proposed cuts before finalizing the budget. Now, the city is seeking input from residents on how to shrink the budget by $1.5 million in 2020-2021 and $2.5 million in 2021-2023. 

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