City water grant application approved, departments present budget requests

  • IT'S IN THE DETAILS--City commissioners examine a preliminary version of the proposed new city budget during a regular commission meeting July 6. In the foreground, City Attorney Audie Sciumbato and City Secretary Franchesca Jimenez pore over the details as well. (Photo by Jim Steiert)
    IT'S IN THE DETAILS--City commissioners examine a preliminary version of the proposed new city budget during a regular commission meeting July 6. In the foreground, City Attorney Audie Sciumbato and City Secretary Franchesca Jimenez pore over the details as well. (Photo by Jim Steiert)

    City commissioners looked to the future in multiple respects at a regular meeting July 6 in the Commission Chamber of City Hall, acting on possible future water supply and working on the budget for the upcoming new fiscal year, as well as addressing service fees for recreational vehicles.

    With water resources for the City on a troubling decline trend, particularly as concerns production from Ogalla…