Sean C. Morgan
Sweet Home’s municipal budget process has kicked off with a tough problem: How to finance law enforcement.
Property tax revenue will be too low to completely fund the Sweet Home Police Department in fiscal 2014-15, so city officials have proposed transferring $546,500 from the General Fund to cover the shortage.
City Manager Craig Martin presented a budget proposal for fiscal 2014-15, which begins on July 1, and his budget message to the…