On Monday, May 16, the Greenbelt City Council began its final budget worksession at which the council makes tentative final decisions on changes it wishes to make to the city manager’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year, beginning July 1. The council first considered both good and bad news provided by City Manager Michael McLaughlin. Although the bad news far outweighed the good news, the worst of it did not directly affect the proposed budget and the good news provided the council with an extra $75,000 to spend to fund some items on its list of desirable added expenditures. The council chose not to cut a single dollar of the record setting $27 million plus expenditure budget proposed by the city manager, but instead spent the evening determining how to spend the extra money available.
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