Progress with a Price
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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Jon Hensley
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Making the Budget
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…
Jefferson City’s Self-Sustaining City Services
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…
Budgeting for the Imaginable Unknown
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…
Use It or Lose It
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…
Budget Basics
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…