HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Hutchinson City Council will wrestle with cuts to the City's budget at its next budget meeting Tuesday.
According to the memorandum published with the agenda from Finance Director Angela Richard, the city has passed the increase in health insurance costs on to the Health and Dental Fund. This will cause the Health and Dental Fund to use $290,557 of reserve balances in 2022. She said in the memo, "This is not something we can continue to do."
There are $221,000 in cuts to CIP projects and $864,800 in cuts to MERF projects. More than $1.8 million has been cut from department operations across the city. Even with those cuts, in the documents provided to the governing body, the ending balance is budgeted at $4,175,009. The goal the governing body would like to get to is two months of expenses, which would be about another $1 million in cuts.
The City's budget meeting is at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.