Reference: Visit websiteWATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - Watertown has a budget. City council members made some final tweaks before approving the spending plan Monday night.
While the budget will add $250,000 for Zoo New York, the council opted to close the Alteri pool this summer, which will save the city around $200,000.
Council member Robert Kinball says with the lower tax rate, next year.s budget will be harder to work on.
"It was a compromise," she said. "I mean, anybody who watched the sessions that we had saw a lot of discussions amongst the council members. As I said a couple of times today, does the budget have everything in it that I would want, does it have the cuts made to it that I would've liked to have seen happen, no it doesn't, but ultimately at the end of the day I think we produced a budget that did make necessary cuts, got the tax rate down."
In other business Monday, the city is looking to get some help from the federal government for an upcoming drinking water project.
The city council passed a resolution to allow the city to apply for a $17.5 million grant through the Defense Community Infrastructure program.
"We're farther along this year with design and one of the key factors is that the project has to be shovel ready, so we will be shovel ready in January this year," he said, "and we've got the commanding general's endorsement of Fort Drum which also will carry a lot of weight."
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