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Jon Hensley

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Progress with a Price

  • Posted on October 29, 2020October 28, 2020
  • story byJon Hensley
Budget concerns arise amid shrinking revenues and the rising cost of living. Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Prep Recap On Sept. 8, 2020, the city council adopted the Jefferson City budget…
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Making the Budget

  • Posted on August 27, 2020August 27, 2020
  • story byJon Hensley
City employees prepare for the annual budget. By the time you read this, I hope and pray that we are nearly finished preparing the city’s budget for the fiscal year…
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Jefferson City’s Self-Sustaining City Services

  • Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
  • story byJon Hensley
Collage of line drawings of a meter, a bus, an airplane and waster water sewer.
Say that five times fast. You can’t do it. Here’s how people keep this city running. My first few articles with the magazine have focused on the City of Jefferson’s…
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Budgeting for the Imaginable Unknown

  • Posted on April 29, 2020April 28, 2020
  • story byJon Hensley
Unimaginable dark gloomy clouds, unpredictable weather.
Jefferson City’s budgeting plan helps disaster recovery efforts. The natural disasters that hit a year ago were equal parts destructive and unstoppable, and neither came with a great deal of…
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Use It or Lose It

  • Posted on February 27, 2020February 27, 2020
  • story byJon Hensley
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The unsustainable cost of untaxed online sales. Every time someone visits a store in Jefferson City and purchases a product or service, a municipal sales tax equaling 2% of the…
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Budget Basics

  • Posted on December 27, 2019December 31, 2019
  • story byJon Hensley
Councilman Jon Hensley provides insight into the city’s budget. I was elected to the Jefferson City Council in April 2018, and I’m nearing the end of my first term. Among…
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