Sean C. Morgan
The City of Sweet Home is holding off hiring a police officer and holding back spending to help cover an unanticipated shortfall in funding for the library and Police Department.
Last fall, the city learned that the overall property values in Sweet Home went down last year, meaning the city faced an unexpected loss of roughly $90,000 in the police levy, $11,500 with the library levy and $18,000 in the general fund.