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GBC sales tax revenues up
GUN BARREL CITY —
With a recession blowing into town late last year, council members braced for the worst and came up with a very conservative budget.
Now, with a quarter to go, the cheap budgeting seems to have paid off.
Sales tax revenues for 2009 aren’t just better than expected in that dismal forecast, they’re better than last year’s sales period.
City Manager Gerry Boren brought the evidence with him to last Tuesday night’s city council meeting “We’ve met our sales tax goals or we’ve beat them with four months to go,” he said.
Sales tax revenues have provided $60,000 more for city coffers, and “cheaper” than anticipated fuel prices have saved the city another $40,000 Boren said.
During budget workshops last year, city officials figured gasoline prices to be as high as $4.50 a gallon.
Being roughly a hundred grand to the good, the council agreed to amend the “conservative budget” and buy two badly needed vehicles, Boren said.
The council agreed.
So the city will purchase one three-fourths ton truck for the street department and another for code enforcement. “We had two vehicles for three people,” Boren said.
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