S-W council adopts $26 million budget
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November 27, 2009 - 10:53 AM
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SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The City Council unanimously adopted a nearly $26 million 2010 budget Wednesday night, but questions of cost remain.

The city plans to cut expenses by nearly a third next year. The spending cut is accomplished largely by eliminating the equivalent of nearly five staff positions and wrapping up work on major road construction projects.

Other chores loom for the city — especially fixing the Sedro-Woolley Museum’s leaky roof and buckling wall.

Repairs for the museum are not accounted for in the 2010 budget, City Supervisor and Attorney Eron Berg acknowledged Tuesday, but he said something still must be done to fix the roof or at least move the museum’s artifacts.

Berg said the city got an estimate of $50,000 to replace the roof in 2007, but the problem has since worsened. And one wall is now buckling, according to Planning Director Jack Moore.

Berg said he doubted the $50,000 fix would do much to remedy what he called a “fundamentally flawed” building design.

No decision was made Wednesday on the museum, but some officials said the problem was so bad that moving the museum to a new location and demolishing the existing building may be an option.





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