Council Majority Leader Charlie Loeb was also unsure where the city might find savings. We'll have to figure it out. It'll be a hard road, but we'll get there. City Manager Sherry Risk said business and occupation tax payments due at the end of March were coming in as expected. Business and occupation taxes were due April 30.
Officials expect checks to continue to trickle in steadily over the next week or so.
If they don't, receipts could miss expectations again. Despite being on track to meet business and occupation expectations for the quarter, the city's budget is still out of whack because of higher than expected employee health care costs. Officials have already put more money into the health care budget twice this year because of high costs. Council also voted to change employees health plans effective July 1, the beginning of next fiscal year. The change would put all city employees into one health plan instead of having them split between two plans.