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Yankton City Commission Faces Difficult Funding Decisions

Yankton City Commission Faces Difficult Funding Decisions

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The Yankton City Commission, and outside agencies, felt the brunt of slowing sales tax revenue. The commission was working through their outside agency funding at their meeting Monday night, and ended up funding many of them at last year’s level.

Commissioner Charlie Gross, who made the motion for flat funding, says the “Triple B” tax is not growing fast enough, and the fund balance is dropping….

Commissioner Tony Maibaum was not happy with the committment to Yankton Area Progressive Growth…..https://soundcloud.com/wnax-radio/tony-maibaum-711a

YAPG will get two hundred twelve thousand dollars next year.

Commissioner David Knoff (ka-noff) says they can’t spend more at this point…..

The commission voted eight to one to support the funding recommendations.

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