The Forest Lake City Council looked at proposed 2018 budget numbers and offered feedback on individual pieces and priorities during a workshop on Aug. 8. The meeting was the first of multiple meetings the council will have this month before setting a preliminary budget and levy, a number that cannot be increased for the rest of the budget process, in September.
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The initial proposal for the 2018 levy, prepared with input from city staff and the city’s Finance Committee, calls for an overall levy increase from the approximately $9.48 million of this year’s levy to $9.94 million in 2018, an increase of about 4.88 percent or $460,000. However, even though the levy itself is going up, two important levy numbers are set to decrease under the proposed levy.
The first number set to decrease is the total general fund levy, which is going down because the city is moving its capital
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