Wilmington City Council will try again to pass a FY 17 city budget Wednesday night.
Council president Theo Gregory announced this afternoon that Council will meet Wednesday to hold a second budget vote.
Council last week rejected a compromise $154 million dollar spending plan in a 7 to 6 vote that Gregory called “a skirmish.”
“The ones who want radical surgery – they want us to reform city government – in the context of a budget process, that ain’t going to happen," Gregory said. "We’re not going to go to that extreme. So if someone wants to tinker with it, maybe it will be tinkered with in some small way. But we’re ok, you know what I mean? When you’ve been through wars and wars and wars, a little skirmish is nothing.”
A release from a Council Monday says Councilman Bob Williams is prepared to switch his vote from “no” to “yes” after talking to the mayor’s office about his concerns over the lack of progress resolving police and fire labor contracts, and the need for additional expenditure reductions.
The special meeting is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday. Council is required to adopt a balanced budget by the end of May. It goes into effect July 1.
