The Poplarville Board of Aldermen will still need to cut $55,419 from the proposed city budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year at their next budget workshop.
During the Board’s regular meeting Tuesday, the Board tentatively cut several large expenses to bring the budget closer to being balanced. At the start of the meeting, the Board needed to cut $221,736 in expenditures from the proposed budget.
To reduce expenses the Board proposed purchasing only one police car instead of two, forgoing a project to stripe Main Street, not budgeting to repair the police department building or city hall, not budgeting for the commercial cleaning of City Hall or buying a new City Hall sign and not purchasing new breathing apparatus or turnout gear for the fire department. Board members said some of the items might be added back in if other items can be found to cut during the next budget workshop set for July 30.